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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
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
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition ...
— 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
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
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
— 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