“Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today. Those woodland lakes in a thousand sitting-rooms with gold-tinted wallpaper belong to the profoundest inspirations of art. It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.”

—  Asger Jorn

1940 - 1948, Intimate Banalities' (1941)

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Danish artist 1914–1973

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