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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 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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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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I am not strong on perfection.
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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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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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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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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to 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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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