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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Jasper Johns

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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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 decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
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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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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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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 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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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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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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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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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I am not strong on perfection.
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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