Asger Jorn Quotes
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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
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Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
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Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.
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Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
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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.
