(4 quotes found)
“The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.”
Asger Jorn
“What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life; our interest in life, in all it moral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art. We do not even know the laws of aesthetics. That old idea of selection according tot the beauty-principle Beautiful – Ugly, like to ethical Noble – Sinful, is dead for us, for whom the beauty is also ugly and everything ugly is endowed with beauty.”
“Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc… It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.”
“On reality as motion: Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again.., only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.”
