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Sargents' "Wyndham Sisters" and Picasso's "Demoiselles d'Avignon" painted seven years apart... Seen today, Picasso's prostitutes, no matter how revolutionary their depiction may have been in 1907, looks like a rejected manual meant for placement above the Normandy's Second Class Cocktail Bar. Exuding Afro-chic and a prophetic Art Deco classicism, the "Demoiselles" is an evocation of nudity as a metaphor for pure truth. Far nearer true prostitution are the three tough Wyndham lovelies, so obviously waiting to be knocked down to the highest bidder. Each of Sargent's brushstrokes is the ultimate in pearly price tags. - Colin Eisler

p26 NY Times Book review - April 27. 1980

Demand... nothing more from man in a positive way, that's precisely why I fail to be sentimentally moved by so much rubbish, human shit, narrowmindedness and superficial carrying on! - on the contrary, the more the cesspool is stirred up, the better it pleases me - ...do nail a motto over your

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bloody bed, once and for all, form the day they are confirmed to the day they are bumped off into the heavenly hustle and bustle beyond 'men are pigs.'

Letter to Otto Schmolhausen - March 3 - 1918

p58 George Grosz (his life and work) Une. Schneede

In order to attain a style which... would render the blunt and unvarnished harshness and unfeelingness of my objects, I studied the crudest manifestations of the artistic urge. In public urinals I copied the folkloristic drawings; they seemed to me to be the most immediate expressions and the most succinct translation of strong feelings. Children's drawings, too, stimulated me because of their lack of ambiguity. Thus it was that gradually I came to use this hard-as-nails drawing style which I needed to transfer onto paper my observations which, at that time, were directed by absolute misanthropy.

Aburicklung[?] 1925 p.38 (above) George Grosz