Asger Jorn Quotes About Painting

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.

  Asger Jorn

  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”

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

  Asger Jorn

  Expression, Add, Painting

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

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

  Asger Jorn

  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”

• 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.

  Asger Jorn

  Responsibility, Reflection, Years

  "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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