"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity……" — Max Beckmann
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
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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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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
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