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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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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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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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 am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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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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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 am not strong on perfection.
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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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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 don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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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.
Jasper Johns
