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

Day after day gasped away, slowly seep hours when fettered or immured, only at times does imagination scale the palisades that the spirit of chaos and confusion, the spirit of reactionary bombast, has set up around us - dreams, dreams of endless, destructive hate! Mists of hate, beclouding the burning brain!

A great deal that had become frozen within me in Germany melted here in America and I rediscovered my old yearning for painting. I carefully and deliberately destroyed a part of my past.

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