Max Beckmann Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“One of my problems is to find the self.”

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

“Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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