"..it become a lightning rod the following winter when Paul F. Schmidt purchased it for the Dresden Museum. Later when…"

"After Herberholz had shown me all sorts of techniques, I suddenly got very interested in etching. I had a lot to say,…"

"I'm a man who is concerned with reality. I have to see everything. I have to plumb the depths of life. And so I go to…"

"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had …"

"War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence."

"Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bull…"

"My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made…"

"If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous."

"RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' [now lost] created such a sensation in Dresden"

"Nobody wants to look at it. What is it all supposed to mean.. ..the old whores and the old, worn out women, and of li…"