We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition..

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 myt….

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics..

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 necess….

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting..

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite i….

My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistent….

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.. ….

True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from hum….

The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this p….

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art..

Being an artist is being an isolated individual..

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details..

To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts..

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting..

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring for….

In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting….