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

“My paintings are not meant to be tasted.”

“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. ”

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

“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”