Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

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.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

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.