There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being said and not being said with photos …

- John Heartfield

Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If …

- John Heartfield

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

- John Heartfield

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

- John Heartfield