Quotes About Otto Dix

#1. The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education ... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

Ken Adam

#2. People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

Otto Dix

#3. You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Otto Dix

#4. I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

Otto Dix

#5. Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

Otto Dix

#6. It's Friday; you ain't got no job ... you ain't got shit to do

Nancy Friday

#7. There are so many glowing reasons to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#8. With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.

Taraji P. Henson

#9. As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Otto Dix

#10. I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

James Patterson

#11. The passions are the voice of the body.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#12. I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Otto Dix

#13. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

#14. I will either be famous or infamous.

Otto Dix

#15. Love turns the strongest of men into warriors. When a man has someone to fight for, he's capable of moving mountains."
- Finn, Chosen

Kristen Day

#16. For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

Eddie Huang

#17. Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

Otto Dix

#18. Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Otto Dix

#19. I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

Otto Dix

#20. Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Louis L'Amour

#21. All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Otto Dix