Quote

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.

Asger Jorn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Asger Jorn
Age: 59 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 3
Died: 1973
Died: May 1
Art Theorist
Ceramicist
Graphic Designer
Lithographer
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Asger Oluf Jørgensen
Asger Oluf Jorn
Asger Oluf Jorgensen
Asgeir Jorn
Language
Nerves
Power
Nightmare
Grating
Mind
Torture
Tortures
Like
Piece
Tearing
Strength
Corpse
Thousand
Corpses
Pieces
Symbolic
Dies
Orchestra

More quotes by Asger Jorn

Image
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
Asger Jorn
Image
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
Image
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
Asger Jorn
Image
Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
Asger Jorn
Image
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.
Asger Jorn
Image
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
Asger Jorn
Image
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
Image
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
Asger Jorn
Image
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
Asger Jorn
Image
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
Asger Jorn
Image
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
Asger Jorn
Image
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Asger Jorn
Image
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
Image
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