As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.
Max Beckmann, Guggenheim Museum Soho (1996). “Max Beckmann in exile”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
