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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

Jasper Johns

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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to 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 love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
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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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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 tend to like things that already exist.
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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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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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 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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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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