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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.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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 am not strong on perfection.
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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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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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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 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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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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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 tend to like things that already exist.
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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