Asger Jorn Quote

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.

Statement (c. 1944), on automatic drawning, quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 162