"My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all r…"

"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisf…"

"There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case.…"

"I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. It is my duty to voice the suff…"

"I have been through a revolution, and I am convinced that I am no revolutionist. My childhood dreams of dying on the …"

"For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom …"

"Every war already carries within it the war that will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything…"

"Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is hard work."

"For work, one must be hard and thrust outside of oneself what one has lived through."

"Der Künstler ist meist ein Kind seiner Zeit, besonders, wenn seine eigene Entwicklungsperiode in die Zeit des frühen …"