Asger Jorn Quotes About Painting

• Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

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  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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  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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• In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

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  "On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the Situationist International, 1957-1972" edited by Elisabeth Sussman, (p. 142), 1989.

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

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