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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
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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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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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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.
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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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