"Victory is the child of preparation and determination."

“While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity....”

“Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.”

“As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as "put him in the movie because he has nice abs" guy.”

“My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

“Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.”

“The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.”

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”

“Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.”