Art Quote by Asger Jorn

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

— Asger Jorn

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...

— Asger Jorn

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

— Asger Jorn

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

— Asger Jorn

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

— Asger Jorn

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

— Asger Jorn

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

— Asger Jorn

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

— Asger Jorn

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

— Asger Jorn

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

— Asger Jorn

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

— Asger Jorn