24 Quotes by 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.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

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.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

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.