Quotes by Max Ernst - Page 1

All good ideas arrive by chance.
Max Ernst / Painter
Chance
Good Ideas
Ideas
Intuition
Writing
Arrive
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Art has got nothing to do with taste.
Max Ernst / Painter
Art
Taste
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My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
Max Ernst / Painter
Meant To Be
Painting
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Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
Max Ernst / Painter
Beauty
Philosopher
Teaching
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I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.
Max Ernst / Painter
Attending
Birth
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Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted
Max Ernst / Painter
Art
Art Is
Taste
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The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.
Max Ernst / Painter
Painter
Projects
Roles
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Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.
Max Ernst / Painter
Knows
Water
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And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.
Max Ernst / Painter
Bird
Flesh
Transformed
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Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
Max Ernst / Painter
Creativity
Reality
Sparks
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Christian
Humility
Pride
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Artist
Development
Phases
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Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst / Painter
Amusement
Discovery
Reality
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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 / Painter
Amusement
Discovery
Felt
Invention
Plastic
Reality
Time Me Painting
Time Reality Me
Decorative
Either
Every Time
Revelation
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Achievement
Artist
Reflection
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Reality
Suits
Two
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Art
Beautiful
Ugly
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Able
Possibility
Records
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Art
Men
Mirrors
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Common
Expression
Giving
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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.
Max Ernst / Painter
Artist
Found Objects
Light
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