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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 of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.' ↗

— Jasper Johns

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I never wish for critics. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is. ↗

— Don Johnson

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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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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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

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Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#certain #certain kinds #differences #different #different kind