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
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