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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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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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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper Johns
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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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'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 am not strong on perfection.
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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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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.
Jasper Johns
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Jasper Johns
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
Jasper Johns
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
Jasper Johns
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
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
Jasper Johns
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
Jasper Johns
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
Jasper Johns
