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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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 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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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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 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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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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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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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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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