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• Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

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  Beautiful, Differences, Long

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Lo inesperado, lo desconocido, lo accidental, lo desordenado, lo absurdo, lo imposible desencadenan una corriente de pensamiento creativo.

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  Train Of Thought, Creative, Unexpected

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• Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

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  Lying, Flux, States

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.

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

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  Expression, Add, Painting

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 115), 2002.

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• 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 that matters, the confrontation with things.

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  Lying, Experience, Care

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• We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

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  Chispas

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 5), 2002.

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

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  Oneself, Expressing Oneself

  Speech to the Penguins, 1949.

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• To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

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  Art, Together Again, Able

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Art, Curves, Twists

  "Fortaelleren Asger Jorn" by Gunnar Jespersen, (p. 121), 1984.

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• 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 is also the basis of our contemporary art.

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  Art, Joy, Illusion

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Cualquier cosa realmente nueva es repulsiva, porque es anormal y poco razonable.

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  Abnormal, Originality, Unreasonable

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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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  Strength, Artist, Creative

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• A menudo se puede describir mejor la lucha entre las personas, lo esencial de ella, mediante animales fantásticos, los instintos simples, primitivos, desnudos, que representando una situación concreta. No es al animal humano a quien debemos describir, sino a nosotros mismos como animales humanos.

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  Mean, Fighting, Animal

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.

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• Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

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  Artist, Solitude, Individual

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• No podemos heredar de la generación anterior una visión fija e inmóvil de la vida y del arte.

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  Art, Past, Views

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

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  Art, Talking, Cognition

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

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  Knowledge, Needs, Generations

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

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  Expression, Substance, Painting

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.

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  Art, Foundation, Depth

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

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  Lying, Expression, Faithful

  "Aftermath France, 1945-54 : New Images of Man : An Exhibition" by Germain Viatte, Sarah Wilson, (p. 107), 1982.

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

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  Art, Communication, Reality

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 145), 2002.

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• The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

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  Artist, Perception, Details

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Actúo con plena responsabilidad y tras una amplia reflexión.

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  Responsibility, Reflection

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• 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.

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  Mind, Orchestra, Nerves

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

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• Sólo mi situación actual me ha permitido llevar a cabo la costosa tarea de demostrar que el sustento preferido de la pintura es la pintura.

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  Tasks, Painting, Currents

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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