Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.
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
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
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. - George Grosz
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing - George Grosz
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
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
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… - 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…
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
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…
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
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…
I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either. - George Grosz
I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
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
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…
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