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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.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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 am not strong on perfection.
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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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 assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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 would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
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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 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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