Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. Asger Jorn More Quotes by Asger Jorn More Quotes From Asger Jorn I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Asger Jorn responsibility reflection 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 expression add Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. Asger Jorn painting substance expression There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life. Asger Jorn real beautiful character The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned. Asger Jorn soil foundation artist We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. Asger Jorn views past art The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words. Asger Jorn normal important inspire This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. Asger Jorn progress ice development We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us. Asger Jorn generations knowledge needs If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity. Asger Jorn often-is important art To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today. Asger Jorn elements magic thinking You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals. Asger Jorn fighting animal mean In the beginning was the image. Asger Jorn Being an artist is being an isolated individual. Asger Jorn individual solitude artist To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts. Asger Jorn choices mistake It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it. Asger Jorn style eye art During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. Asger Jorn strength creative artist
