Asger Jorn Quote

The reverse process is extremely important to me — that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words. It is known as a rule in the so-called Germanic art, and through the middle ages heaps of such stories are directly inspired by fantastic images.

On the relation between words and images, in a letter to anthropologist Francis Huxley (1970)