The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
Max BeckmannI 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 BeckmannMy figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.
Max Beckmann