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“Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?”
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“Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.”
Source : "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.
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“Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: 'You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.' Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, 'It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.'”
Source : "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.
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“These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.”
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“But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?”
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“The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.”
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“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”
Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38
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“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
