• I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

    Max Beckmann: I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
    Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.8, Tate Enterprises Ltd