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I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.
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A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
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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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I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.
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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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