Max Ernst
Max Ernst
Max Ernstwas a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth2 April 1891
CityBruhl, Germany
CountryGermany
art men mirrors
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.
art taste art-is
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted
reflection artist achievement
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.
reality discovery amusement
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
creativity reality sparks
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
reality two noble
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.
artist light found-objects
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.