I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be….

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died..

My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves….

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nati….

I was put in this world to change it..

Men without joy seem like corpses..

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds..

Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only….

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig h….

I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure ar….

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart..

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdra….

I am in the world to change the world..

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes..

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to f….

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out..

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work..

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work..

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of t….

Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human right….