"In principle, any abstraction of the object is……" — Max Beckmann
"In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it."
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Max Beckmann
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29 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.
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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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The greatest mystery of all is reality.
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If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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