"The role of the painter . . .……" — Max Ernst
"The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him."
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18 Quotes by Max Ernst
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The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian…
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Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
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All good ideas arrive by chance.
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My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
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And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...
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Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which…
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Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it…
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Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a…
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Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
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I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make…
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I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.
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When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded…
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