The Role Of The Painter . .

The Artist Is A Spectator, Indifferent Or Impassioned, At The Birth Of His Work, And Observes The Phases Of Its Development.

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.

Art Has Nothing To Do With Taste. Art Is Not There To Be Tasted

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.

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.