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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.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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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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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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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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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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 would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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