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From Quotes by Jasper Johns
- Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
- I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of…
- 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…
- Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away…
- I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being…
- 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…
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