"A creative train of thought is set off……" — Asger Jorn

"A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible."

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35 Quotes by Asger Jorn

Asger Jorn has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic…
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most…
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously…
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual…
We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
In the beginning was the image.
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons…
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content…
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...

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More Absurd Quotes

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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