Asger Jorn Quotes
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
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Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
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I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.
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We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
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I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.
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We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.