Max Beckmann Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
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“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.”
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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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“If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.”
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“My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.”
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“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.”
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“The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.”
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“Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.”
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“All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.”
-- Max Beckmann
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