ARTIST - MAX ERNST

Max Ernst (1891 – 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

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Max Ernst, Silence, 1943

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility. (Max Ernst)

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Max Ernst, The Clothing of the Bride, 1940

"Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings." (Max Ernst)

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Max Ernst, Napoleon in the Wilderness, 1941

"Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition." (Max Ernst)

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Max Ernst, Day and Night, 1941

"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." (Max Ernst)

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Max Ernst, The Temptation of St Anthony Max Ernst, 1945

"I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works." (Max Ernst)

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Max Ernst, Profanation of spring, 1945

"Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation." (Max Ernst)

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Max Ernst, Europe after Rain, 1942

"All good ideas arrive by chance."(Max Ernst)