Art Quote by J. G. Ballard
“My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.”
![“In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after…” quote by Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/005/asger-jorn-16504_accomplish_in-1939-i-wrote-my-first-article-intime_2280511.jpg)
