You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
More Quotes from Otto Dix:
Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.Otto Dix
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
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
I will either be famous or infamous.
Otto Dix
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
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