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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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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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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 am not strong on perfection.
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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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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to 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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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 tend to like things that already exist.
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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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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There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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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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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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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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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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Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
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My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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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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