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A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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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 think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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
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.
Jasper Johns
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.
Jasper Johns
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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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.
Jasper Johns
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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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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.
Jasper Johns
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 assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
Jasper Johns
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
Jasper Johns
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
Jasper Johns
I am not strong on perfection.
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.
Jasper Johns
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
Jasper Johns
