Citater om the art

In a lot of work I try to make it and unmake it at the same time, …..which sort of adds up to nothing but at the same time is something too.
It is best to think of the faces as mirrors
This life cannot be the excuse for the next
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
If you don’t go to extremes, don’t bother to go.
Wrecking cannot be avoided, but people are free to choose what to wreck and what not to wreck.
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
In the beginning was the image.
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression.
Art is not so much expressing oneself, as it is discovering oneself.
Impulse alone does not make a work of art.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.