"True realism lies in the search for the……" — Asger Jorn
"True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest."
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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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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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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Be content to seem what you really are.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
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