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Quotes from Max Ernst

All good ideas arrive by chance.
~ Max Ernst
Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.
~ Max Ernst
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
~ Max Ernst
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
~ Max Ernst
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
~ Max Ernst
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
~ Max Ernst
Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.
~ Max Ernst
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted
~ Max Ernst
And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...
~ Max Ernst
My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
~ Max Ernst
All good ideas arrive by chance.
~ Max Ernst
The announcement to mother: Don't be sad, mother. God betrayed me. I am His widow. I've become ageless and all my memories are smothered.
~ Max Ernst
to all of us a theatrical death
~ Max Ernst
He who says collage says the irrational.
~ Max Ernst
and everything is inhuman
~ Max Ernst
nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings
~ Max Ernst
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
~ Max Ernst
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
~ Max Ernst
I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.
~ Max Ernst
Art has got nothing to do with taste.
~ Max Ernst
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
~ Max Ernst