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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Jasper Johns

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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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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 don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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.
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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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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 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 not strong on perfection.
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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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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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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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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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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