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To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

~Jasper Johns

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I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

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There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

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Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

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I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

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One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

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This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

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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.'

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To me, self-description is a calamity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 15th, 1930

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