The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.
Max BeckmannArt is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Max BeckmannMy figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.
Max BeckmannIn principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.
Max Beckmann