The Virtue Of Pride, Which

I Have Never Seen A Beautiful Painting Of A Beautiful Woman. But You Can Take An Ugly Woman And Make A Beautiful Painting Of Her. It Is The Painting Itself That Should Be Beautiful.

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.

Art Has Got Nothing To Do With Taste.

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.

Creativity Is That Marvelous Capacity To Grasp Mutually Distinct Realities And Draw A Spark From Their Juxtaposition.