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I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#better #focusing #get #health #how

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#fragment #intention #involves #life #mind

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #child #i #know #meant

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

— Jasper Johns

#anticipates #changes #ideas #inhabit #likes

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during

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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #else #had #i #i can

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawing #later #making #means #most

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#did #duty #feel #i #know