Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror … - Max Ernst

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Max Ernst

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

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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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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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