Asger Jorn Quotes
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
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We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.
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We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
