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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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