Asger Jorn Quotes

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

Asger Jorn

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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.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• 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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Alive
  • Evolve

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• 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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• 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.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Power
  • High

• Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I'm constantly hydrating my hair.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Hair
  • Constantly

• 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.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Home

• You have to feel good about yourself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Feels
  • Feel Good

• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Successful
  • Living
  • Concept

• You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

  

  John Travolta
  • Friend
  • Justice
  • Friendship

• 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.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Work
  • Plans
  • Difficulty

• To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • You
  • Care

• Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Form

• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity, since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known, and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Form
  • Activity
  • Intellect

• Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

  

  Asger Jorn
  • Expression
  • Form
  • Substance