Max Beckmann

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

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

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

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.