Max Beckmann Quotes
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
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In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
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I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
