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

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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

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“There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.”
“Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.”
“If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?”
“I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
“Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.”
“I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with images which (often) have a documentary interest, but which rarely go further than that. One has to be completely available, very tenacious and admit that many subjects won't give any results... and a miracle sometimes happens, without warning.”
“I think dating is all about role playing, and figuring out what you want and don't want. You figure out more about yourself by meeting people. You're like, "I'm not right for that person, but why am I not?" I think dating is a really interesting journey.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.”

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