Max Liebermann quotes

“The art of drawing is the art of omission.”
-- Max Liebermann

Source : Quoted in Paul Klee On Modern Art (1979). Liebman, David 1946- US jazz saxophonist, highly regarded as a performer and teacher.

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“Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.”
-- Max Liebermann

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“Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!”
-- Max Liebermann

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“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”

“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”

Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.”

“The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.”

“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”

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“When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.”

“I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.”

“To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.”

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.”

Source : "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, Volume 45, 1939.

“I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”