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Absurd Quote by Asger Jorn

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“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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The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here…

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Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

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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 the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and 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 motion, lies truth.

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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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To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts.

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Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

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My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and…

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There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are…

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We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

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When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

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“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick…

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The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it…

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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is…

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I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It…

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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