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George Grosz Quotes

1893–1959 Germany

George Ehrenfried Grosz (26 July 1893 – 6 July 1959) was a German artist, known for his Dadaist and anti-Nazi works.

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Yes, [to] the Communist party! [the presiding judge asked Grosz: 'Do you belong to a political party?']

A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong.

A great deal that had become frozen within me in Germany melted here in America and I rediscovered my old yearning for painting. I carefully and deliberately destroyed a part of my past.

I see the future development of painting taking place in workshops.. ..not in any holy temple of the arts. Painting is manual labor, no different from any other. It can be done well or poorly.

Grosz and Heartfield, 1920: text on their billboard at the Dada fair in Berlin

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Grosz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.