Quotes from Max Beckmann

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

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.