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I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
Max Beckmann

Biography

Author Profession: Artist
Nationality: German
Born: February 12, 1884
Died: December 28, 1950

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One of my problems is to find the self.
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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Max Beckmann

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

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
Max Beckmann

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Max Beckmann

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
Max Beckmann

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
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Arm, Breaking, Combination, Curved, Division, I Think, Leg, Lines, Objects, Ones, Only, Plane, Relation, Sense, Space, Straight, Think, Through, Wonderful

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Arm, Breaking, Combination, Curved, Division, Leg, Ones, Only, Plane, Relation, Sense, Space, Straight, Think, Through, Wonderful