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

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• Max Beckmann:

  I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can on

• Max Beckmann:

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

• Max Beckmann:

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

• Max Beckmann:

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

• Max Beckmann:

  There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

• Max Beckmann:

  I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking thr

• Max Beckmann:

  I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

• Max Beckmann:

  What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perha

• Max Beckmann:

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

• Max Beckmann:

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