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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
Explore more quotes by Otto Dix
"I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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