Anything really new is ...

Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.
 Asger Jorn

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To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
 Asger Jorn
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.
 Asger Jorn
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
 Asger Jorn
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
 Asger Jorn
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
 Asger Jorn