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Otto Dix
11 quotes
“War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: War-Diary, c. 1915-16; as cited in Art of the 20th Century, Part 1, Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke; publisher: Taschen 2000, p. 188
“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!”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: War Diary 1915–1916, Städtische Gallery, Albstadt, p. 25; as cited by Eva Karcher, Otto Dix, New York: Crown Publishers, 1987, p. 14
“My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter from Görden 1917, to his brother-in-law, Otto Schmalhausen; as cited in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Jo…
“If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark of 1919, as quoted in German Expressionism 1915-1925 : The Second Generation (1988) by Stephanie Barron. p. 71
“RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' [now lost] created such a sensation in Dresden”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from a photo of Otto Dix c. 1920; with text written by himself with crayon on the wall behind him - in standing pose for the photographer; printed in 'Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War…
“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.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in Art of the 20th Century, Part 1, Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke; publisher: Taschen 2000, p. 188
“[..it had been fun] to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Otto Dix quoted by Eva Karcher, in Otto Dix, New York: Crown Publishers, 1987, p. 14; as cited by Roy Forward, in 'Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War', p. 8
“I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Otto Dix quoted by Eva Karcher, in Otto Dix, New York: Crown Publishers, 1987, p. 41; as cited by Roy Forward, in 'Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War', p. 9
“After Herberholz had shown me all sorts of techniques, I suddenly got very interested in etching. I had a lot to say, I had a subject. Wash off the acid, put on the aquatint: a wonderful technique that you can use to get as many different shades and tones as you want. The 'doing' aspect of art becomes tremendously interesting when you start doing etchings; you get to be a real alchemist.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Otto Dix quoted by Eva Karcher, in Otto Dix, New York: Crown Publishers, 1987, p. 22; as cited by Roy Forward, in 'Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War', p. 10
“I'm a man who is concerned with reality. I have to see everything. I have to plumb the depths of life. And so I go to war. That's why I volunteered [in the German army]. And when I tell people that nowadays, they say, "Good grief, so Dix was an out-and-out militarist! How does that fit together? He painted a war picture that was so frightful, so horrific, and now he says he was a militarist?" Yes, that's just it! What I said was: "If you want to be a hero, you have to see this whole mess and still say yes to it.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Otto Dix, 1891-1969, p. 280; as cited in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Califor…
“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? Perhaps I was an inquisitive person. I had to see all that for myself. I’m such a realist, you know, that I have to see everything with my own eyes in order to confirm that it's like that. I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths of life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. [in the German army during world War 1. (1914-1918)]”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Otto Dix, 1891-1969, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Gallery, 1992, pp. 17–18; cf. pp. 27–28; as cited by Roy Forward, in 'Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War', p. 9