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Max Beckmann

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Imagination is perhaps the most decisive characteristic of mankind. My dream is the imagination of space – to change the optical impression of the world of objects by a transcendental arithmetic progression of the inner being. That is the precept. In principal any alteration of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. Whether such alteration causes excitement or boredom in the spectator is for you to decide.
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republished text of his public speech during the exhibition ‘Twentieth-Century German Art’, London, 21 July 1938; as quoted in “Max Beckmann – On my Painting”, Tate Publishing London, 2003, p. 16

 
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