George Grosz's Profile
Brief about George Grosz: By info that we know George Grosz was born at 1970-01-01. And also George Grosz is German Artist.
Some George Grosz's quotes. Goto "George Grosz's quotation" section for more.I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
Tags: Best, End, FightPeace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
Tags: Drunk, Joy, PeaceI had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
Tags: Great, War, WiseIt's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
Tags: Art, Keep, OldThe bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
Tags: Against, Culture, ThemselvesI don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
Tags: Enough, Small, TalkI 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 voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.
Tags: Against, Lost, WarIn 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
Tags: Free, Rather, ServiceIn the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.
Tags: Home, Time, WarThe cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
Tags: Business, Genius, GreaterThe 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 with unusual clarity.
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