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

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

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.

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.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.