To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art. — Asger Jorn Aim Copy Share Image
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art. — Asger Jorn Able Copy Share Image
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn Expression Copy Share Image
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. — Asger Jorn Aesthetics Copy Share Image
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought. — Asger Jorn Expressing oneself Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Abstract Copy Share Image
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. — Asger Jorn Abnormal 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 Art Copy Share Image
The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will… — Asger Jorn Care Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies… — Asger Jorn Back again 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from… — Asger Jorn Expression 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 Aesthetic Copy Share Image
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody… — Asger Jorn Can do Copy Share Image
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes… — Asger Jorn Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material… — Asger Jorn Beautiful Copy Share Image
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the… — Asger Jorn Animal 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 Art 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 Accomplish Copy Share Image
I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. — Asger Jorn Inspirational Copy Share Image
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. — Asger Jorn Aesthetics Copy Share Image
To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts. — Asger Jorn Choices 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 Add Copy Share Image
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn Absurd Copy Share Image
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing… — Asger Jorn Corpses 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 Art 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 Aesthetics Copy Share Image
To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how… — Asger Jorn Elements Copy Share Image
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. — Asger Jorn Beautiful 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 Accomplish Copy Share Image
True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content… — Asger Jorn Detached 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
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