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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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Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #i see #impure #neither #other

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

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#false #i #i do #me #seems

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised. ↗

— Boris Johnson

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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#come #dreadful #ideas #out #people

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. ↗

— Claudia Johnson

#art #beyond #could #his #immediate

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons. ↗

— Don Johnson

#daughter #easier #get #hell #just

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#back #i #i can #little #look

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#any #being #burning #conscience #death