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1. "The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity." ~ George Grosz
2. "I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either." ~ George Grosz
3. "It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture." ~ George Grosz
4. "The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'" ~ George Grosz
5. "In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while." ~ George Grosz
6. "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." ~ George Grosz
7. "Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated." ~ George Grosz
8. "I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self." ~ George Grosz
9. "Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind." ~ George Grosz
10. "I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it." ~ George Grosz
11. "In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time." ~ George Grosz

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