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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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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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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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 tend to like things that already exist.
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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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'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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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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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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 am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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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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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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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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