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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.
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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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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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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'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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I am not strong on perfection.
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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, 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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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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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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Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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