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

"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 …"

"During the war, Dix kept a diary and a sketchbook with which he chronicled his experience. They would provide materia…"

"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…"

"[..it had been fun] to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery.."