"The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details."

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Source : Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

Asger Jorn

#Artist Quotes #Perception Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.”
“The constant attention is what is so difficult.”
“You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.”
“...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.”
“I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.”
“What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, theyâ€™ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.”

Source : William Styron (1993). “Set this House on Fire”, Vintage
“If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.”
“In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!”

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