American - Artist | May 15, 1930 -
Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.
Jasper Johns
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
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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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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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The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.
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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 an idea.
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One works without thinking how to work.
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Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
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I tend to like things that already exist.
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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