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.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.