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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

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

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you. — Kerri Kasem

I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air — Xavier Velasco

I like to be on the edge of the possible. — Jorn Utzon

Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it. — Stella Payton

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

People are made from the stuff of the universe, and the universe is very dark; so everyone has a bit of that darkness lurking somewhere inside them. — Patrick Zac

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

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

Live how we can, yet die we must. — William Shakespeare

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

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

In the beginning was the image. — Asger Jorn

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

Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person. — Josef Pieper

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

Sometimes you can't save people, and sometimes they don't want to be saved. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Study the sky, but do not love it. It is our prison and the symbol of our capture. — Rosamund Hodge

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

A leader does not tell you what to do but shows you how to do it. — Myself

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 too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of. — Rob Sheffield

I wanted a new label. One that said: girlfriend who will do anything to be tied, spanked, and fucked all over rather than adored. — Pepper Winters

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