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Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

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George Grosz

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

Art, Bourgeoisie, Culture, Old, Ploy
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My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

Art, Convince, Done, Drawing, Mean, Work

The 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.

Genius, Individuality, Personage, Personality, Profit

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop. . . A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.

Artist, Bullshit, Crammed, Men, Metaphysics, Working

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

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In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.

Belts, Dog, Morning, Song, Way
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