The law of aesthetics is the same as the law for our desire… Need says: "You must eat." Aesthetics says: "You can do it in a thousand different ways." Ethics: "You need a woman." Aesthetics: "Which woman do you want?" Thus the purpose of art is first and foremost ethical than aesthetic — even when the wish becomes need. The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.


'Speech to the Penguins' (1949)

Asger Jorn Quotes

The law of aesthetics is the same as the law for our desire… Need says: You must eat. Aesthetics says: You can do it in a thousand different ways....

The law of aesthetics is the same as the law for our desire… Need says: You must eat. Aesthetics says: You can do it in a thousand different ways....

The law of aesthetics is the same as the law for our desire… Need says: You must eat. Aesthetics says: You can do it in a thousand different ways....

The law of aesthetics is the same as the law for our desire… Need says: You must eat. Aesthetics says: You can do it in a thousand different ways....