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Jasper Johns Inspirational Quotes (38)

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I tend to like things that already exist.
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I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
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Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.
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When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
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Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.
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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
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I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
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That’s what painting does it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.
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My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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