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I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#everything #got #just #makes #more

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#awake #clear #experience #feel #new

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 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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Do something, do something to that, and then do something to 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

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

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