"War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence."
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
"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 doesnt make anybody happy. No gallery wants to exhibit it.[ his work]. Why do you even bother to paint it."
Otto Dix"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"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"If I cant be famous, I want at least to be infamous."
Otto Dix"RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting Barricade [now lost] created such a sensation in Dresden"
Otto Dix"[..it had been fun] to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery.."
Otto Dix