"..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…"

"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…"

"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.."