26 Quotes by George Grosz

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    My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.

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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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    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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    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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    It’s an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ‘art’ to defend their collapsing culture.

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    The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It’s an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

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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 bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

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