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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.

— George Grosz

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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.

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

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