"What I want to show in my work……" — Max Beckmann
"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence."
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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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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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