FROM MAX BECKMAN'S LECTURE
'ON MY PAINTING', London 21st July 1938
"...Actually I assume there are two worlds! The world of the Spirit and the world of the political reality!. They both are strictly separated functions of  life manifestation that touch each other from time to time but in principle they are different out of their essence. In my painting works I put the value above all on the Ideality that exists behind the seeming Reality..... I am searching for the bridge to the Invisible...the same was  expressed once by a well-known kabbalist : If you do want to grasp the Invisible , pierce as deep as you can in the Visible."

I am interested to catch the Magic of the Reality and to translate this Reality into painting. Perhaps it sounds like a paradox, yet it is the reality that makes up the mystery of the existence!

Decisive is the throughout scanning of the space. To transmit the height, the width and the depth on the flat surface  in that way that out of these three space characteristics the abstract surface of the painting to be constructed . This abstract surface provides me with confidence against the infinity of the space. My figures come and go bringing me happiness or unhappiness. I am seeking to hold them by undressing them from their seeming fortuity/accidental occurrence. To find the unique and immortal EGO- in the animals as well in the people- in heavens and in the hell, they both building the world in which we live- space....space...and once more space,  the endless creation around us in which we ourselves are.

I am seeking to create through painting that. That is a function completely different from poetry and music- yet for me it is a necessity determined in advance (a priori). When spiritual , or metaphysical, or earthly, or heavenly events happen in my life, I am able to hold them only on the way of painting."

Egon Schiele: "There is no Contemporary Fine Art. There is only Fine Art and it is eternal."
Bartolome Murilio believed he had the gift of painting to have some rest from time to time from the life troubles in the world of fantasy invented by himself.
Camille Corot:" You should not begin a career of a painter unless you feel in yourself a passionate affection for the nature"
Edvard Munch: "I heard an inner voice that whispered:" Man, you have not to fight anybody or to prove anything. Enjoy the sun as the flowers do in spreading their leaves to it. Love people as only man is able to love. And when you hour comes, you will have achieved your goal and with a light heart will dedicate yourself to heaven and will be happy."
About Fra Angelico: "He was accustomed  not to correcting or re-painting his paintings leaving them as they have been 'cast' on the canvas believing that was the God's will."
Van Gogh: " In life and in Art as well I can cope with myself without God, but I, the suffering man can not exist without something greater than me, without something that fills out all my life- without the creative power." "I do not invent the creative work- to the contrary I find it to be complete. It must be only found in the nature and extracted from the nature."
John Constable: "Non- beautiful things do not exist ; in my whole life I have never seen anything deserving this definition, because no matter the shape of the object has, the light and shade effects as well as the perspective will make it beautiful."