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

- George Grosz

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…

- George Grosz

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…

- George Grosz

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…

- George Grosz

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…

- George Grosz

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…

- George Grosz

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

- George Grosz

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

- George Grosz

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

- George Grosz