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.
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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
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
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.
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One of my problems is to find the self.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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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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