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I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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On his Flag-paintings:
[to see the painting].. as an object, as a real thing in itself.
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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
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Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
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An invisible drawing made in the air. Make a drawing behind your back. Make a stolen painting.
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Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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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.
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I made the flags and targets to open men's eyes....[they] were both things - which are seen and not looked at - examined.
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Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
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The relationship between the object & the event. Can they 2 be separated? Is one a detail of the other? What is the meeting? Air?
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Everybody 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.
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One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.
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Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. – ruler on board.
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I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
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Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface – trace the object – then bend the object – leaving some part of it attached.
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Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.
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As you [Tono] has written, people say that my works are 'neutral'. But if you paint something, it is 'something', and it cannot be neutral. Being neutral is a mere expression of a form of intention.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Jasper Johns
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May 15, 1930
(age 93)
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