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.
In the beginning was the image. - Asger Jorn
In the beginning was the image.
- Asger Jorn
I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. - Asger Jorn
I act with full responsibility and after extensive 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
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things… - Asger Jorn
The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things…
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, nake… - Asger Jorn
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, nake…
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art. - Asger Jorn
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… - Asger Jorn
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…
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought. - Asger Jorn
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. - Asger Jorn
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
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