Max Beckmann

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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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

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Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment! ↗

— Max Beckmann

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