In the beginning was the image.

- Asger Jorn

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

- Asger Jorn

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.

- 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…

- 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…

- Asger Jorn

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

- 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…

- Asger Jorn

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

- Asger Jorn

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

- Asger Jorn