Asger Jorn Quotes

Denmark, Painter
March 3, 1914 – May, 1, 1973.

Asger Oluf Jorn was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen.

Also known as Sculptor, Ceramist, Author

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

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
- Art
- Talking
- Cognition
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

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

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

Asger Jorn
- Man
- Speak
- Material
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
- Artist
- Creative
- Strength
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

Asger Jorn

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

Asger Jorn
- Generation
- View
- Inherit
Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

Asger Jorn
- Artist
- Being
- Isolated
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

Asger Jorn
- Goal
- Changes