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Max Beckman Art Quotes
"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for
amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the
quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending
journey we must all make." --Max Beckmann
"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for
transfiguration, not for the sake of play." --Max Beckmann
"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the
invisible through reality." --Max Beckmann
"I awoke and yet continued to dream." --Max Beckmann
"I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to
be objective." --Max Beckmann
"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
"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
"In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a
sufficiently strong creative power behind it." --Max Beckmann
"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
"My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to
fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality." --Max Beckmann
"The greatest mystery of all is reality." --Max Beckmann
'One of my problems is to find the self." --Max Beckmann
'Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible
achievement." --Max Beckmann
'Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and
soul." --Max Beckmann
'The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record
that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut." --Max
Beckmann
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