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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

Jasper Johns

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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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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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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 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 love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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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 am not strong on perfection.
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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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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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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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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 assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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