I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

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.

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

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

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.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

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

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

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.

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

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.

Think about it this way--our actions speak truth our words cannot.

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

I should love her like there is an ache that won't go away unless I'm with her.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

Are you Evelyn Green?” “Sort of. Mostly. I mean, legally. Again, sort of.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.