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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.
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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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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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 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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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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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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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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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 don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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