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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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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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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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As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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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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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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I am not strong on perfection.
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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’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
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