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Max Beckmann

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


— Max Beckmann


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


— Max Beckmann


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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.


— Max Beckmann


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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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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


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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


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


— Max Beckmann


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


— Max Beckmann


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


— Max Beckmann


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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!


— Max Beckmann


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From his youth he pitted himself against the old masters. He suffered from angina pectoris and died after Christmas 1950 struck down by a heart attack at the corner of 61st Street and Central Park West in New York not far from his apartment building. Well-read in philosophy and literature he also contemplated mysticism and theosophy in search of the "Self".

In the 1920s he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Max Beckmann (February 12 1884 – December 28 1950) was a German painter draftsman printmaker sculptor and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist he rejected both the term and the movement.

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