"In the beginning was the image." — Asger Jorn
"In the beginning was the image."
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Asger Jorn
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35 Quotes by Asger Jorn
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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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Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously…
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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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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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