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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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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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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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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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