Max Ernst

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.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

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.

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

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.