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.
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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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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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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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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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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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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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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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Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
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I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little hello to the filmmakers, and that kind of back and forth dialogue between artists that say, "I loved your movie. I was influenced by your movie. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't be thinking of that. Do my TV show and then one day I'll make a movie where I can play with some of the visual themes in "Force Majeure."
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Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used to believe was useless — that is the best brain for creative writing. Words come pouring out easily while my head still feels as if it is full of ground fog, wrapped in flannel and gauze, and surrounded by a hive of humming, velvety sleep bees.
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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.
