Max Beckmann Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Play, Creative

  Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.8, Tate Enterprises Ltd

• My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Average, Fairy Tale

• All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Inspiration, Feelings

  "On my painting". Republished text of Beckmann's public speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art' in London, July 21, 1938.

• 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.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Play, Torment

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.306, University of Chicago Press

• The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Law, Moral

  Catalog Nationalgalerie Berlin, DDR, p. 109, 1986.

• It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

  Max Beckmann

  Depressing, Art, Luxury

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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