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We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

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Asger Jorn

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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A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

Absurd, Creative, Train, Train Of Thought, Unexpected, Unknown

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

Beautiful, Differences, Grim, Life, Long, Pouring

My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill , Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.

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Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

Constant, Flux, Lying, Motion, State, States

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.

Art, Depth, Foundation, Rests, Work
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