"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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Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

Max Beckmann

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“In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.”

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“Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.”
“Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.”
“The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.”

Source : Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”
“Let me just say that it is super wierd throwing your own bash at a conference instead of just leaching off everyone else's, but hey, free beer, right?”
“The way that I write songs is pretty simple. I hear music first, much like you would when you're scoring a film. I usually hear a soundtrack in my head, and after I get that soundtrack, it tells me what it's about, what it feels like, what the emotion is, and the words come after.”

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“It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.”
“The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.”

Source : "Nishina memorial lectures: creators of modern physics" by Nishina Memorial Foundation, Springer, (p. 506), 2008.

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