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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 decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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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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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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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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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 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’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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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I am not strong on perfection.
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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 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 assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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