Asger Jorn Quote

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.


Statement in 1950, as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 76


You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive,...

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive,...

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive,...

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive,...