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Saturday 7 February 2009

MAX BEKCMANN



-Art is creative for the sake of realization,
not for amusement.. for transfiguration,
not for the sake of play.


-hardly need to abstract things,
for each object is unreal enough already,
so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting

4 comments:

Dave King said...

I could sign up to those quotes.

ELAINE ERIG said...

Pardon, what you mean Dave????

Sepiru Chris said...

That is an English idiom that means he strongly agrees with them, they represent his belief system.

To sign up to something is to signify you support. In a war, when the government asks for volunteers, they ask you to sign up. Typically this is done in support of the ideals of the nation.

(If we forget about the grinding poverty of many recruits... but, historically, there are many people who "sign up" to support the philosophical system that they think they understand and espouse, or believe in and proclaim to be true.)

ELAINE ERIG said...

However..just playing with Dave, )- this was not difficult to translate.I feel little disapointed.