Asger Jorn
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“To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts.”
“To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”
“The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.”
“Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.”
“I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.”
“Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”
“We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.”
“This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”
“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.”
“In the beginning was the image.”
“The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”