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“We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.”

Quote by Asger Jorn

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Asger Jorn (1914-1973) was a Danish painter known for his contributions to abstract expressionism and Dadaism. His work blends various styles, including surrealism and minimalism, and was deeply influenced by his philosophical and literary interests throughout his artistic career. more

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“During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.”

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“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 myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.”

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“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 necessary elements even of natural science today.”

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

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“The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.”

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“In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.”

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