Asger Jorn Quotes
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The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
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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.
— Asger Jorn
“To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”
— Asger Jorn
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
I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.
— Asger Jorn
“Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”
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“The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.”
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“This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”
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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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“In the beginning was the image.”
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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.
— Asger Jorn
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition ...
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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.
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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
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.
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“We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.”
— Asger Jorn
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