Max Beckmann Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

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

  Max Beckmann

  Achievement, Painting

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.307, University of Chicago Press

• When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

  Max Beckmann

  Spiritual, Healing, Events

  Max Beckmann (2003). “Max Beckmann On My Painting”, Tate

• 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

  Real, Mean, Enough Already

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

• 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

  Real, Men, Political

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

  Max Beckmann

  Believe, Objectivity, Painting

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