Asger Jorn Quotes

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• You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked…
• If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult…
• Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
• Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
• 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 of expression.
• True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.
• 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 impossible.
• We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...
• The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the…
• To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts.
• There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the…
• To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
• We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its…
• The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is…
• Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

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