"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena……" — 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."
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29 Quotes by Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann has 29 quotes on this site.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
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When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way 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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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and…
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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
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I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
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I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make…
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a…
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In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.
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The greatest mystery of all is reality.
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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