Asger Jorn Short Quotes

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We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

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Even here, nothing ever happens; and nothing ever happens to it.

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To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts.

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The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

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To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

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This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

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If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

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[My own goal is] to be completely empty of ideas at the moment of setting brush to canvas, the head being just as empty as the canvas.

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Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again,.... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

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Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc... It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

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True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

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The picture's substance reflects the painter's substance, showing how much he has felt of himself and his society, how much he spans and how deep his experience goes.

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It has been the giver's intention to create as complete a collection of European art as possible, with the aim of illuminating Surrealism and Spontaneous-Abstract art.

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If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

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