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Max Beckmann quotes

Deutsch Artist February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950

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Max Beckmann quote: "I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces..."
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. Max Beckmann
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
Max Beckmann quote: "I passed blindly many things which belong to real and..."
I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. Max Beckmann
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. Max Beckmann
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
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann quote: "One of my problems is to find the self."
One of my problems is to find the self. Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann quote: "Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for..."
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. Max Beckmann
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann quote: "What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself..."
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. Max Beckmann
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones. Max Beckmann
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
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
Max Beckmann quote: "Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only..."
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. Max Beckmann
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright. Max Beckmann

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