"I was disappointed, not because we had lost……" — George Grosz
"I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter."
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George Grosz
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21 Quotes by George Grosz
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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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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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It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
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