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A painter may know what he does not want.

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what he does want! A painter is lost if he finds himself. | The fact that he has succeeded in not finding | himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only | 'achievement'. | Quote from 'Max Ernst', exhibition catalogue, Galerie Stangl, Munich, 1967, U.S., pp.6-7, as cited in Edward Quinn, Max Ernst. 1984, Poligrafa, Barcelona. p. 12

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