"What can I say about the First World……" — George Grosz
"What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?"
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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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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and…
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They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember…
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The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have…
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Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches…
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