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From Quotes by 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.
- True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.
- 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…
- The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.
- We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do…
- We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
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