"The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought."

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Source : Speech to the Penguins, 1949.

Asger Jorn

#Oneself Quotes

“Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.”
“People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.”

Source : "The 12 Best Beauty Looks From the 2016 Golden Globes" by Julie Schott, www.elle.com. January 11, 2016.
“True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly!”
“What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.”
“I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife." Tell them what?" That you and I were outwitted by a ropma." That would be shamful." Girl, we could never live it down.”
“I respect Everest very much.”
“I'm not in business to make money.”
“I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.”

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