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Max Beckmann Quotes

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There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality  (Max Beckmann Quotes) What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us  (Max Beckmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality  (Max Beckmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!  (Max Beckmann Quotes) I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery  (Max Beckmann Quotes) I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life  (Max Beckmann Quotes) One of my problems is to find the self  (Max Beckmann Quotes) Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement  (Max Beckmann Quotes) The greatest mystery of all is reality  (Max Beckmann Quotes) When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting  (Max Beckmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome  (Max Beckmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality  (Max Beckmann Quotes) If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible  (Max Beckmann Quotes) In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it  (Max Beckmann Quotes) Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play  (Max Beckmann Quotes) Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained  (Max Beckmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective  (Max Beckmann Quotes) I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality  (Max Beckmann Quotes) 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 Quotes)