The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Aesthetics Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Abstract Copy Share Image
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art. — Asger Jorn Able Copy Share Image
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies… — Asger Jorn Back again Copy Share Image
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. — Asger Jorn Beautiful Copy Share Image
To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts. — Asger Jorn Choices Copy Share Image
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. — Asger Jorn Abnormal Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material… — Asger Jorn Beautiful Copy Share Image
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn Absurd Copy Share Image
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody… — Asger Jorn Can do Copy Share Image
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from… — Asger Jorn Expression Copy Share Image
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. — Asger Jorn Accomplish Copy Share Image
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the… — Asger Jorn Animal Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Accomplish Copy Share Image
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought. — Asger Jorn Expressing oneself Copy Share Image
The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art. — Asger Jorn Aim Copy Share Image
