German - Artist | February 12, 1884 - December 28, 1950
I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
Max Beckmann
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What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
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One of my problems is to find the self.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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