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Max Beckmann
German
Artist
About the author
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Reality
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.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Space
#Infinity
One of my problems is to find the self.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Problems
#Self
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Love
#Nothing
#Reason
#Painting
#Hate
#Sentimentality
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Painting
I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Life
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Sense
#Space
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Now
#People
#Flowers
#Spring
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Death
#Music
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Love
#Reason
#Painting
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Art
#Play
#Amusement
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Want
#Work
#Idea
#Reality
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Life
#Man
#Soul
#Body
#Painting
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Slavery
#Tears
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Right
#Sun
#Sky
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Art
#Play
#Questions
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Infinite
#Space
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Achievement
#Painting
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Max Beckmann,
German
Artist
#Nothing
#Hate
#Sentimentality