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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.
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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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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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 would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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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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 love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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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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I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
Jasper Johns
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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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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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