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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.
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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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I am not strong on perfection.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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.
Jasper Johns
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper Johns
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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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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 decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
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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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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.
Jasper Johns
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 would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
Jasper Johns
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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When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
Jasper Johns
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
Jasper Johns
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
