Otto Dix Quotes

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

Art Chaos Dreams Effort Exorcism Me Much My Time Order Our Our Time Paint Painting Produce Time Too Visions Yourself

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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

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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

Art Colors Everybody Experience Few Forms Know Living Necessary Painting Picture Reality Sees Sense Should Sight Them Thinks Very

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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

Am Beside Bullet Dead Directly Experience Falls Had Him Hit How Me Over Pacifist Quite Someone Suddenly Therefore Wanted

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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

Depths Experience Ghastly Life Myself Reason Volunteered War

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I will either be famous or infamous.

~ Otto Dix

Either Famous Infamous Will

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

~ Otto Dix

Beautiful Everything Making Obsessed Seen Ugliness

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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

Been Create Desire Doing Got I Can Paint Painting Reason Release Remember Seen Still Would

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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

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

~ Otto Dix

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

~ Otto Dix

Him Know Paints Portrait Possible Should Someone You

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Otto Dix

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02 December, 1891

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25 July, 1969

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