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I never wish for critics.

~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. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

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Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

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Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

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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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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

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My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

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At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. 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 love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 15th, 1930

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