Asger Jorn Quotes
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We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.
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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.
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Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.
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The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
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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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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
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Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
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We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
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Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
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The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.