Duchamp made a well-known statement about chance. He states: I don't think that the public is prepared to accept it...my canned chance. This depending on coincidence is too difficult for them. They think everything has to be done on purpose by complete deliberation...in time they will come to accept chance as a possibility to produce things. In fact, the whole world is based on chance, or at least is a definition of what …showed first 75 words of 2693 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2693 total…tists such as Dali. Ernst laid the basis for these later developments with his explorations in chance, the subconscious, and condensation joined with juxtaposition as well as with his use of sexuality and gender within a framework of Freud. His collages, which were his attempt at abandoning the traditionally artist creation and his work with found images, always working to keep their unique meaning would later be highly influential.