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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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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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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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 tend to like things that already exist.
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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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 decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
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