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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression." - Asger Jorn painting, aesthetic, expression, art 0
Del "Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting." - Asger Jorn art, painting 0
Del "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art." - Kahlil Gibran art, silence 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 "A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible." - Asger Jorn creative, unexpected, unknown, art 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 "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 "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." - Martin Creed art, martin creed, art now 0
Del "This life cannot be the excuse for the next" - Martin Kippenberger art, art now, martin kippenberger 0
Del "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." - Asger Jorn illusions, disillusion, art 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
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
