Logo
Quote by Max Beckmann
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement...

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. – Max Beckmann

Other quotes by Max Beckmann
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Art
category

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Category:
Art

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. – Ann Landers

Category:
Art

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Art

In an artwork youre always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. – Damien Hirst

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? – Mary Baker Eddy

Category:
Civilization

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. – Loren Eiseley

Category:
Water

If ones honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly. – Arabella Weir

Category:
car

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. – Aristotle

Category:
Excellence