Max Ernst Quotes

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• The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
• Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
• All good ideas arrive by chance.
• My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
• And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...
• The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.
• Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.
• Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of…
• Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad…
• Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
• 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.…
• I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.
• 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…
• Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
• Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted
• Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.
• Art has got nothing to do with taste.
• Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

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