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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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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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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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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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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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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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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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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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I am not strong on perfection.
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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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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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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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