"I am lonely without measure; that is to say, I am alone with my doubles, phantasms in whom I realize specific dreams,…"

"Day after day gasped away, slowly seep hours when fettered or immured, only at times does imagination scale the palis…"

"Art today is an absolutely secondary matter. Anyone who is able to look further than the walls of his own studio can …"

"I see the future development of painting taking place in workshops.. ..not in any holy temple of the arts. Painting i…"

"Árt is dead. Long live Tatlin's new machine art."

"Yes, [to] the Communist party! [the presiding judge asked Grosz: 'Do you belong to a political party?']"

"A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong."

"A great deal that had become frozen within me in Germany melted here in America and I rediscovered my old yearning fo…"

"My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cur…"

"The court ordered the artist Grosz to pay a fine of 300 marks and the publisher Herzfelde to pay 600 marks, ordered t…"