“ Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. Aeschylus Dramatist
“ Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god. Max Beckmann Writer
“ We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. William Wallace Landowner
“ A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer