The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
Max BeckmannWhen spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
Max BeckmannMy 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.
Max BeckmannWhat I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Max Beckmann