War Art Quotes

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don't think life could be any more miserable.

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

It is useless to try so frequently and unsuccessfully, attempt upon attempt, to instruct the great mass of people in the art of war

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.