The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].
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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