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I tend to like things that already exist.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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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 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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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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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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 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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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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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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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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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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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