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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.”

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

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“My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.”

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