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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
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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'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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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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 don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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 not strong on perfection.
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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.
Jasper Johns
To me, self-description is a calamity.
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