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Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.

~Jasper Johns

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In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

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I am not strong on perfection.

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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

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When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

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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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Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

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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 often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 15th, 1930

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