“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.”

— George Grosz

In his autobiography, 1946, p. 270; as quoted on Wikipedia: George Grosz

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