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Max Beckmann Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



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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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The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.





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