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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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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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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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 tend to like things that already exist.
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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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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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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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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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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 think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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
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
