Jasper Johns Quotes

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• I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and…
• I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me…
• There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
• I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
• Merce is my favorite artist in any field,
• I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done.…
• I'm working in my mind.
• One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the…
• To me, self-description is a calamity.
• To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
• When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
• I am not strong on perfection.
• Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
• 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…
• I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
• I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
• I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
• I never wish for critics.
• One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
• 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…

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