JJJasper Johns

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Jasper Johns

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01Undated

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

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02Undated

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

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03Undated

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

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04Undated

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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05Undated

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

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06Undated

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.

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07Undated

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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08Undated

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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09Undated

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.

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10Undated

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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11Undated

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

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12Undated

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

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13Undated

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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14Undated

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

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15Undated

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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16Undated

I am not strong on perfection.

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17Undated

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

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