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Asger Jorn - From the Abstraction category:
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Accidents category:
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Artists category:
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Choices category:
To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Choices category:
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Communication category:
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Contemporary Art category:
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Difficulty category:
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Experience category:
The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Expression category:
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Expression category:
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Fire category:
We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Form category:
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Goals category:
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Interest category:
The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Knowledge category:
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Language category:
-on symbolism in Nordic myths...
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. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Meaning category:
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. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Movement category:
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Originality category:
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Painting category:
Long live painting. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Painting category:
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Realism category:
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. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Renewal category:
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Responsibility category:
I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Risk category:
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Solitude category:
Being an artist is being an isolated individual. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Spontaneity category:
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 through, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Standards category:
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Strength category:
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Style category:
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Subject category:
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc... It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Thinking category:
To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Thought category:
Our experiments aim at letting thought express itself spontaneously without the control which reason represents. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Titles category:
-title of one of his paintings, 1965...
In the beginning was the image. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Tradition category:
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. (Asger Jorn)
Asger Jorn - From the Words category:
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. (Asger Jorn)
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