My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.
Max BeckmannWhat matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
Max BeckmannPainting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
Max Beckmann