Max Beckmann Short Quotes

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Today I wanted to die of weakness and melancholy again.

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Very worried and nervous for 1944. Life is dark – as is death. Close 1943.

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

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Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

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Afternoon with Q. [Quappi, his second wife] on foot, looking for butter and coals – in vain.

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The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.
To Franz Marc who demanded in 'Der Blaue Reiter' (c. 1912) a new modern art, in relation to its own - changing - time

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

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I want to stay here [Amsterdam] for now, then maybe move on to Paris later on. For the interim, Amsterdam is not bad.

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

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Saw the English [pilots] coming from the sea in huge bands like the bristling hair of Zeus Jupiter. Heard all destroyed in Frankfurt. Sad...

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If one perceives of it all – the entire War or even life as a whole – as a scene in the theater of 'infinity', many things are much easier to bear.

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Even our own cadaver-bones shall not hinder us from standing our ground until the very last, proud and tired in the face of the black wall that surrounds us.

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The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

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I am working here [Amsterdam] on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

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One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal – to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.

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