My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.
In the beginning was the image. - Asger Jorn
In the beginning was the image.
- 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
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…
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.
I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. - Asger Jorn
I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.
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…
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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