"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."

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Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

Asger Jorn

#Mind Quotes #Orchestra Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.”

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“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.”
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
“We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.”
“Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.”
“Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.”
“Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.”
“Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.”

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