"I don't even like to talk about it.……" — George Grosz
"I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them."
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George Grosz
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21 Quotes by George Grosz
George Grosz has 21 quotes on this site.
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How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy…
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The…
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an…
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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless…
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I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
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Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
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When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in…
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My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to…
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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on…
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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the…
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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can…
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I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage…
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More Bellow Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and…
— Sufjan Stevens
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true.…
— Stewart O'Nan
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
— Leslie Fiedler
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Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up…
— Philip Guston
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
— Charles Peguy
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There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it,…
— Frank McCourt
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I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I…
— Cynthia Ozick
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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
— Leslie Fiedler
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Theres a time for us all, some just shorten their length. Death shall come, the dead shall go, bury me…
— Racheal Deanna Holt
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Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose…
— Unknown Author
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