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If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.

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War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence.

Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is! It is all the work of the Devil!

I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.

[..it had been fun] to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..

Nobody wants to look at it. What is it all supposed to mean.. ..the old whores and the old, worn out women, and of life is cares?. .It doesn't make anybody happy. No gallery wants to exhibit it.[ his work]. Why do you even bother to paint it.

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