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
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.
artist phases development
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
art taste
Art has got nothing to do with taste.
art taste art-is
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted