"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."

War, People, Fear, Beginning

4

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more War quotes

"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

War, Earth, Humanity

"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

War, Defense

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

George Orwell, British Author

War, Hatred, Jealousy, Nothing

"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

War, Evil, Humanity, Cause

"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

George Orwell, British Author

War, History, Technology, Conflict

"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

War, Service, World, Worldwar

"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

Victor Hugo, French Author

War, Justice, Injustice, Conflict

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

Oliver Stone, American Director

War, Consequences

"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

Arthur Keith, Scottish Scientist

War, Force, Humanity, World

"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

War, Peace, Irony, Technology

Explore more quotes by Otto Dix

"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."

War, People, Fear, Beginning

"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."

Art, Experience, Colors, Living

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

Politics,

"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?"

Experience,

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

Art, Ugliness

"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."

Desire, Painting, Reason

"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."

Life, Experience, War, Reason

"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."

Art, Dreams, Time, Chaos

"I will either be famous or infamous."

Famous, Will

"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."

Dream, Dreams, Houses, Man, Years