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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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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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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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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 love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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