Asger Jorn Quotes
Top 21 wise famous quotes and sayings by Asger Jorn
Asger Jorn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
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.
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again ... , only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition ...
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.