Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

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.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!