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> [Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/only-my-current-situation-has-enabled-me-to-accomplish-the-expensive/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

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> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/in-1939-i-wrote-my-first-article-intime-banaliteter-intimate/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

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## More by Asger Jorn

> [The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/the-great-work-of-art-is-the-complete-banality-and-the-fault-with/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [Being an artist is being an isolated individual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/being-an-artist-is-being-an-isolated-individual/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/we-are-not-talking-about-a-new-cognition-in-relation-to-abstract-art/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/to-break-and-be-able-to-grow-together-again-in-a-better-way-that-is/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/if-the-image-was-sketched-onto-the-canvas-and-spontaneously-drawn/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/everything-is-in-constant-flux-from-state-to-state-from-good-to-bad/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/beautiful-ugly-impressive-disgusting-meaningless-grim-contradictory/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/to-get-anywhere-one-must-choose-one-s-mistakes-i-chose-experimental/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/anything-really-new-is-repulsive-because-it-is-abnormal-and/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/my-work-is-based-on-a-tradition-quite-distinct-from-the-eckersberg/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/there-can-be-no-question-of-selecting-in-any-direction-but-of/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/we-are-sparks-that-must-glow-as-brightly-as-possible/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/the-reverse-process-is-extremely-important-to-me-that-artistic-images/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [In the beginning was the image.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/in-the-beginning-was-the-image/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

> [A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/a-creative-train-of-thought-is-set-off-by-the-unexpected-the-unknown/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

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