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
Max Ernst quotes about
ideas intuition chance
All good ideas arrive by chance.
painting meant-to-be
My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
beauty teaching philosopher
Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
birth attending
I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.
records able possibility
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.
expression giving common
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.