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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. — Asger Jorn

Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked.
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"Ask me again in the morning. — Donna Thurland

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

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. — Asger Jorn

Stay determined to achieve your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood. — John Keats

A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Cleaving to our own lives, with all their challenges and limitations and particularities, is vital. — Andrew Solomon

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

Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. — Asger Jorn

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary. — Jackie Chan

Being an artist is being an isolated individual. — Asger Jorn

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. — Asger Jorn

In the beginning was the image. — Asger Jorn

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

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

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

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition ... — Asger Jorn

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

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn

True 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

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

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible. — Asger Jorn

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

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

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover. — Vincent Kartheiser

I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know. — Jerrod Carmichael

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. — Asger Jorn