Max Beckmann Quotes on pain

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... view

By: 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... view

By: Max Beckmann

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

By: 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... view

By: Max Beckmann

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

By: Max Beckmann

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