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“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.”
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Max Ernst
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“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 courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.”
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Max Ernst
Source : Max Ernst, Ian Turpin, Julian Stallabrass (1993). “Ernst”, Phaidon Press
#Artist Quotes
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“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”
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Max Ernst
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“Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted”
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Max Ernst
Source : Max Ernst, Karin von Maur, Tate Gallery, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1991). “Max Ernst: a retrospective”
#Art Quotes
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“My paintings are not meant to be tasted.”
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Max Ernst
#Painting Quotes
#Meant To Be Quotes
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“All good ideas arrive by chance.”
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Max Ernst
#Ideas Quotes
#Intuition Quotes
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“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 to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.”
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Max Ernst
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“The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.”
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Max Ernst
Source : Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Sabine Rewald, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Max Ernst: A Retrospective”, p.54, Metropolitan Museum of Art
#Roles Quotes
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“I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.”
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Max Ernst
#Birth Quotes
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“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.”
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Max Ernst
#Reflection Quotes
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“And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...”
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Max Ernst
#Bird Quotes
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“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.”
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Max Ernst
Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).
#Able Quotes
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“The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.”
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Max Ernst
Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).
#Artist Quotes
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“Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.”
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Max Ernst
Source : Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Karin von Maur, Tate Gallery, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1991). “Max Ernst: a retrospective”, Prestel Pub
#Water Quotes
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“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.”
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Max Ernst
#Beautiful Quotes
#Art Quotes
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“Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.”
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Max Ernst
#Beauty Quotes
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“Art has got nothing to do with taste.”
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Max Ernst
#Art 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.”
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Max Ernst
#Christian Quotes
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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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Max Ernst
#Reality Quotes
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“A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone.”
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Max Ernst
Source : Review of 'Rhenish Expressionists', Bonn, 1913.
#Expression Quotes
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