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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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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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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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here in one place and there in another place at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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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.
