To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting,… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life...… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here… — Asger Jorn Copy Share
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Copy Share
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art. — Asger Jorn Copy Share
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most… — Asger Jorn Copy Share
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. — Asger Jorn Copy Share
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. — Asger Jorn Copy Share
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are… — Asger Jorn Copy Share
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures… — Asger Jorn Copy Share
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn Copy Share
![“In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after…” quote by Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/005/asger-jorn-16504_accomplish_in-1939-i-wrote-my-first-article-intime_2280511.jpg)
