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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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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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 don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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’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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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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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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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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