"Nobody wants to loo at it. What is it all supposed to mean.. ..the old whores and the old, worn out women, and of life is cares?. .It doesn't make anybody happy. No gallery wants to exhibit it.. Why do you even bother to paint it."

“to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..”

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

“RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' created such a sensation in Dresden”

“My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!”

“War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence.”

“Otto Dix at Museum Syndicate”