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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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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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 picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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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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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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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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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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 am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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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 would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
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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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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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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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