All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
Max BeckmannWe 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.
Max BeckmannThe 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 Beckmann