Del "Wrecking cannot be avoided, but people are free to choose what to wreck and what not to wreck." - Asger Jorn wreck, art, people 0
Del "To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art." - Asger Jorn art, break, grow, difficult art 0
Del "Art is not so much expressing oneself, as it is discovering oneself." - Anawanitia art, expressing oneself, discovering oneself 0
Del "Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting." - Asger Jorn form, substance, art, expression, painting 0
Del "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." - Asger Jorn renewal, outrageous, life form, art 0
Del "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." - Asger Jorn symbolic, language, nightmare, art 0
Del "The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression." - Josef Albers art, color, artistic expression 0
Del "Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth." - Asger Jorn flux, transmutation, art 0
Del "Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth." - Asger Jorn art, beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting 0
Del "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." - Kahlil Gibran step, obvious 0
Del "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein art, science, emotion 3
Del "This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice." - Asger Jorn thin ice, art, development, aesthetics 0
Del "We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation." - Asger Jorn abstract art, contemporary art 0
Del "The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. " - Asger Jorn art, work, banality 0
Del "Creating new knowledge involves quashing or breaking up old knowledge so as to make room for the new." - Asger Jorn creating, knowledge, new 0
Del "To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art." - Asger Jorn art, reality, human 0