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

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

Max Beckmann
Reality, Bridges, Invisible

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

Max Beckmann
Reality, Mystery

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

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

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.

Max Beckmann
Reality, Bridges, Ideas

What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.

Max Beckmann
Reality, Bridges, Identity
"On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.

Max Beckmann
Reality, Order, Suffering
Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.

Max Beckmann
Sweet, Reality, Feelings
Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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