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Art Quotes by 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 difficult…
- To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
- We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...
- 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…
- We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive…
- Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring…
- It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in…
- We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov