"Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc……" — Asger Jorn
"Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth."
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35 Quotes by Asger Jorn
Asger Jorn has 35 quotes on this site.
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You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic…
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If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most…
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Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual…
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We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.
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This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
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To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
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In the beginning was the image.
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If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons…
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True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content…
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The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
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A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the…
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We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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