If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength. — 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 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
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art. — 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 the most… — Asger Jorn 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 truth. — Asger Jorn 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 Copy Share Image
To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. — 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 clearly and… — Asger Jorn 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 that are… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
