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My interest in the situationist movement is purely personal and passionate in a direct way, and if the inevitable developments of social circumstances require my expulsion from the movement this will in absolutely no way change my purely economic attitude toward this movement. The economic surplus that my social situation as a painter offers me finds its best place in the situationist movement, even if the same movement is obliged to attack me so as to attack a situation from which I cannot escape, but which disrupts the movement.
Asger Jorn
This social peace, reestablished with so much pain and trouble, had lasted only a few years when those who would enter the history of crime under the name “situationists” appeared to herald its end.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle
In a classless society there will no longer be “painters,” but only situationists who, among other things, sometimes paint.
Guy Debord, Rapport sur la construction des situations
The sleeping creator must awaken, and that waking state could be termed “situationist.”
Internationale situationniste #1
While various confused artists nostalgic for a positive art call themselves situationist, antisituationist art will be the mark of the best artists, those of the SI, since genuinely situationist conditions have as yet not at all been created. Admitting this is the mark of a situationist.
Internationale situationniste #7
Even a situationist is sometimes the result of the way society is.
Michèle Bernstein