"Love in an animal sense is an illness,……" — Max Beckmann

"Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome."

— Max Beckmann

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29 Quotes by Max Beckmann

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…
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.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make…
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a…
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.
The greatest mystery of all is reality.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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