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

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had dis….

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a fe….

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

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

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 wi….

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

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 hypocritic….

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 cram….

In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea….

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 voic….

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala an….

When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of it….

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 pro….

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 grea….

In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the de….

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of….

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fig….

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind..

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly..