When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
Max BeckmannWhat matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
Max BeckmannI am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
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 Beckmann