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Max Beckmann - From the Abstraction category:
In principle any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Abstraction category:
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 - From the Accidents category:
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Achievement category:
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Determination category:
My determination becomes colder to grab this twitching, living monster, and lock it away in crystal-clear, sharp lines and planes, to quell it and strangle it. I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Dreams category:
I awoke and yet continued to dream... (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Journey category:
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)
Max Beckmann - From the Love category:
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)
Max Beckmann - From the Models category:
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)
Max Beckmann - From the Mysteries category:
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Painting category:
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 - From the Questions category:
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 - From the Reality category:
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Searching category:
One of my problems is to find the self. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Silence category:
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut... (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Space category:
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)
Max Beckmann - From the Space category:
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. (Max Beckmann)
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