The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

I truly love Australia I miss Aussie kids and their attitude!

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

I find that fashion recently has been a little too hasty. Often times, it's put together quickly to catch the attention of the media, and I didn't want to do that.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.