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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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 think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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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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 not strong on perfection.
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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 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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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