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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.

Jasper Johns

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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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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 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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.
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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'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
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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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Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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I am not strong on perfection.
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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.
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The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
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