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Top 25 Asger Jorn Quotes (2025 Update)

Asger Jorn Quote: “We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.”

1. “We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “In the beginning was the image.”

2. “In the beginning was the image.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.”

3. “I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.”

4. “Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.”

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

Asger Jorn Quote: “A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.”

6. “A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.”

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

Asger Jorn Quote: “This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”

12. “This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”

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

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

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

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

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.”

17. “You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...”

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

Asger Jorn Quote: “Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”

19. “Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.”

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

Asger Jorn Quote: “Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.”

21. “Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist – when developing his own foundation – must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.”

23. “The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist – when developing his own foundation – must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.”

24. “The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.”

26. “True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”

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

Asger Jorn Quote: “To get anywhere, one must choose one’s mistakes. I chose experimental acts.”

28. “To get anywhere, one must choose one’s mistakes. I chose experimental acts.”

Asger Jorn Quote: “The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”

29. “The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”

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