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Max Beckmann has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
• All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
• When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
• I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
• What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
• It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could…
• I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
• I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

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