12 Max Beckmann Quotes for You to Enjoy

Max Beckmann

German Artist

Born: Feb 12, 1884

Died: Dec 28, 1950

Art Hate Me Painting Political Space

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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. Max Beckmann

Reality Visible Seeking Through Invisible Am Which Bridge

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. Max Beckmann

Art Creative Sake Realization Play Amusement

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. Max Beckmann

Me Achievement Painting Possible Constantly Only Appeared

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. Max Beckmann

Tears Loathe Sign Weep Slavery

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. Max Beckmann

Work Reality Hides Idea Itself Behind So-Called Want Which Show

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

People Spring Crosses Small Firing Instead Highways Along Hill Were Covered Lines Shooting Wooden Where Which Fields Straight Across Avoid Now Graves Flowers

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. Max Beckmann

Love Painting Believe Objective Forces Much Reason

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

Wonderful Space Sense Think Relation Objects Only Through Division Combination Arm Lines Leg Wonderful Sense Breaking Straight Plane

One of my problems is to find the self. Max Beckmann

Problems Find Self

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

Myself Space Three Picture Must Abstract Thus Protect Surface Infinity Form Transfer Which Height Plane Depth Phenomena Width

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

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