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    Max Ernst

    All good ideas arrive by chance.

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    Max Ernst

    And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

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    Max Ernst

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

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    Max Ernst

    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

    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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    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

    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

    I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

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    Max Ernst

    My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

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    Max Ernst

    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

    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

    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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    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

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

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    Max Ernst

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