Max Ernst
April 2, 1891 -
April 1, 1976

German painter/poet
Member of the DADA movement, one of the founders
of
SURREALISM, and a pioneer of FROTTAGE
"THE EYE OF SILENCE"
"I was no longer able to feel at ease in the somewhat Puritanical and disembodied intellectualism of the more orthodox Surrealists. I feel, at heart, a far greater affinity with the German Romantics than many of the French Surrealists."
MAX ERNST, 1962
"Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation."
"LA FEMME PENCHEE"
What's the matter with everyone wanting to make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb...can you imagine anyone, around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces, sticking it together, and displaying it?"
"We are mad in
a very different way."
"All good ideas arrive by chance."
"OEDIPUS REX"
POSTSCRIPT
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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