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To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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 tend to like things that already exist.
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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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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 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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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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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 just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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