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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 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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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I am not strong on perfection.
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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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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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.
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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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