We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation… - Max Beckmann
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation…
- Max Beckmann
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 entranc… - Max Beckmann
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 entranc…
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome. - Max Beckmann
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.
What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us. - Max Beckmann
What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut. - Max Beckmann
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. - Max Beckmann
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
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. - Max Beckmann
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.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. - Max Beckmann
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
The greatest mystery of all is reality. - Max Beckmann
The greatest mystery of all is reality.
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