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== Quotes of George Grosz==
* '''I see the future development of painting taking place in workshops.. ..not in any holy temple of the arts.'''
** Quoted by William Bolcom, in ''The End of the Mannerist Century'', as quoted in ''The Pleasure of Modernist Music,'' ed. Arved Ashby (2004, {{ISBN|1580461433}}
* '''A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong.''' ▼
** [[Mario Vargas Llosa]]. "[http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/younourishwithhate.htm 'You nourish yourself with..', George Grosz]," in ''TATE ETC.'' Magazine (Spring 2007)▼
▲* A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong.
** In: a student's unpublished papers 'Notes on Drawing and Water Golor, 1935-36', George Grosz estate, Princeton, N.J.; as quoted in: ''George Grosz: Leben und Werk'', ed. Uwe M. Schneede; Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1975, p. 38
** In the 1930's Grosz encouraged as art-teacher his students at the Art Students League in New York to study children's drawings
== Quotes about George Grosz ==
* '''George Grosz gave a fantastic testimony of Berlin life during a terrible period, divided between [[fascism]] and [[communism]]. He was active in the communist party but had an anarchist's fascination for the characters of underground life. Military figures, prostitutes and violence abound, and fascinate the viewer.. ..this meant he instinctively rooted his art in the common people. It also explains, I think, why caricature and graphic design in magazines and newspapers held such an appeal for him.'''
▲** [[Mario Vargas Llosa]]. "[http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/younourishwithhate.htm 'You nourish yourself with
* '''But while he [Grosz] painted all this violence, we can see from his first drawings onward that he had an ambivalent attitude towards it: he rejected it, and at the same time was fascinated by it. In this respect, he has had some influence on what I do. Grosz's ambivalence is something that I have in myself.. .This is a great paradox of art and literature – what is despicable in life can be very attractive and appealing in art. You nourish yourself with everything that you hate.'''
** [[Mario Vargas Llosa]]. "[http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/younourishwithhate.htm 'You nourish yourself with everything you hate', George Grosz]', in ''TATE ETC.'' Magazine (Spring 2007)
* '''Some of the names Grosz gave himself in letters written between 1913 and 1920 are "Prof Thomas," "Ritter von Thorn," "Gogo," "Dr. Maschin George Ventil," and, complete with place of residence "Lord HattonDixon, New Castle Town," and "Edgar H. Hussler, Boston." He often signed drawings with "Boff" (or "Boffel" or "Fobb"; see number 6 of 'Gott mit uns'); this was a variation on "Boeuf," which was his friends' nickname for him. There is often an element of Dadaist alienation and also of straightforward in this, but not always.'''
** Dückers, in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in ''German Expressionist Prints and Drawings'' - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 112 note 61
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