Max Beckmann Quotes

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Max Beckmann

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Picture
  • Biography
  • Elizabeth I

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Long
  • Space
  • Go

• I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Education
  • Health
  • Space

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Always

• We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Picture

• I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Myself
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• I'm in an interracial marriage.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Marriage

• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Long
  • High
  • Space

• When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Interesting
  • Space
  • Walking

• When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Space
  • Competition
  • Healthy

• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.

  

  James St. James
  • People
  • Time
  • Free

• I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Word
  • Paranoid

• With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • People
  • Judge

• Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Space
  • Picture