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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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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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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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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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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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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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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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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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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.
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.
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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 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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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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