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It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.

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This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

On the task of modern artists (1959)

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

Statement of 1971; as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002)

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

On being an pictorial artist (1950)

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc.. .It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

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