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1. “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.”
2. “Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.”
3. “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.“
4. “My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.”
5. “I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.”
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.”
7. “Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.”
8. “It’s an old play of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ‘art’ to defend their collapsing culture.”
9. “The painter once believed in something, but now he pints only a hole without meaning, without anything-nothing but nothingness, the nothingness of our time.”
10. “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.”