"Being an artist is being an isolated individual." — Asger Jorn

"Being an artist is being an isolated individual."

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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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