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I am not strong on perfection.
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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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 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 decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
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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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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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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.
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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.
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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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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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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.
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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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