#thing

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#hell #i #inherent #just #make

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#band #black #black sabbath #considered #fun

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

— Daniel Johns

#hate #i #motivated #overseas #really

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

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

#else #find #getting #having #head

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

— Jasper Johns

#then

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

#course #everyone #free #his #i

I tend to like things that already exist. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#exist #i #like #tend #things

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

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