Max Beckmann

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

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!

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the questions... And I could never believe blindly.