I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. Max Beckmann Read Quote
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. Max Beckmann Read Quote
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. Max Beckmann Read Quote
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. Max Beckmann Read Quote
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones. Max Beckmann Read Quote
