I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture


In: a letter to his first wife Minna, from the front, first World war, 1915; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 5

Max Beckmann Quotes

I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation ...

I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation ...

I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation ...

I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation ...