One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
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… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
![“The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war…” quote by Max Beckmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/238/max-beckmann-14117_again-and-again_the-world-is-rather-shot-to-pieces-end-o_665482.jpg)
