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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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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 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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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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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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A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.
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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 would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
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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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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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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.
Jasper Johns
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.
Jasper Johns
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.
Jasper Johns
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
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.
Jasper Johns
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
Jasper Johns
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper Johns
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.
Jasper Johns
