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

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

Asger Jorn

#Art Quotes #Together Quotes #Able Quotes

“If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?”
“Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.”
“What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.”
“Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.”
“If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.”
“The spiritual is the parent of the practical.”
“No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.”
“Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.”

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