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“Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.”

Quote by Otto Dix

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Otto Dix was a German expressionist painter known for his profound depictions of social reality and his critical perspective on war, poverty, and unemployment. His works are characterized by strong emotional expression and vivid color contrasts, reflecting the complexities and contradictions of early 20th-century German society. more

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“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”

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Author:Otto Dix

“Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.”

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“I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.”

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“I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.”

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“People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.”

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“How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing”

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“The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.”

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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 artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”

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Book:The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no

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“I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.”

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Book:The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no

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“I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.”

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