Max Beckmann Quotes About Art
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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 more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.
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All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
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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.
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My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.
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