"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul β thus I have passed blindly many things which belong to the real and political life. I assume, though, that there are two worlds: the world of spiritual life and the world of political reality. Both are manifestations of life which may sometimes coincide but are very different in principle. I must leave it to you [the audience] to decide which is the more important."
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Max Beckmann
1884 β 1950
deutscher Maler und Grafiker
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