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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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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'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 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 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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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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One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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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 am not strong on perfection.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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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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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
Jasper Johns
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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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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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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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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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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