#ld

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#four #happily #hated #i #know

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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

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

— Jasper Johns

#could #decided #i #identify #likeness

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

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

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 whole thing. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#course #never #thing #wants #whole

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #become #being #bring #condition

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#discover #foreigners #genuine #had #highly

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#country #end #off #other #rabble

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#andy #constitution #i #i am #interprets