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

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

“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. ”

“My paintings are not meant to be tasted.”

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

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

“Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases merely to live in and with reality and demands a knowledge of this reality, he moves into a new and fundamentally different relation to it. At first, to be sure, the question of truth seems to apply only to particular parts and not to the whole of reality. Within this whole different strata of validity begin to be marked off, reality seems to separate sharply from appearance. But it lies in the very nature of the problem of truth that once it arises it never comes to rest. The concept of truth conceals an immanent dialectic that drives it inexorably forward, forever extending its limits.”