American - Artist | May 15, 1930 - 2
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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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
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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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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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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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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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