Max Beckmann
Artist
1884-02-12
Quotes by Max Beckmann
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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.
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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.
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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
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Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
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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.
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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.
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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
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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.
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