The deepest meaning of 'collage', defined by Max Ernst, is the general application of Arthur Rimbaud's 'delirium': 'I accustomed myself to simple hallucination; I saw quite deliberately a mosque instead of a factory, a drummer's school conducted by angels, carriages on the highways of the sky, a salon at the bottom of a lake: monsters, mysteries, a vaudeville poster raising horrors before my eyes'.
The deepest meaning of 'collage', defined by Max Ernst, is the general application of Arthur Rimbaud's 'delirium': 'I accustomed myself to simple hallucination; I saw quite deliberately a mosque instead of a factory, a drummer's school conducted by angels, carriages on the highways of the sky, a salon at the bottom of a lake: monsters, mysteries, a vaudeville poster raising horrors before my eyes'.