Asger Jorn Quotes
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I wouldn't want to be President now!
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I'm just an American dream.
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The needs of the times will teach you what to do.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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If you keep making things you will always be in your right place. Don’t stop making music, art, poetry, doodles, cocktails, jokes… Your job is to make something. It is the fuel for humanity. It inspires people. Keep being inspired and inspiring.
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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
