Max Beckmann

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.