Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
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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
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
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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.
Max Beckmann
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Max Beckmann
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
Max Beckmann
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