I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. — Asger Jorn Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression. — Asger Jorn Add Copy Share Image
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting,… — Asger Jorn Aesthetic Copy Share Image
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. — Asger Jorn Aesthetics Copy Share Image
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing… — Asger Jorn Corpses Copy Share Image
The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will… — Asger Jorn Care Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life...… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how… — Asger Jorn Elements Copy Share Image
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own… — Asger Jorn Art Copy Share Image
True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content… — Asger Jorn Detached Copy Share Image
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn Expression Copy Share Image
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. — Asger Jorn Aesthetics Copy Share Image
