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Famous Jasper Johns Quotes
“One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.”
“Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.”
“I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.”
“A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.”
“Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.”
“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”
“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.”
“Art is either a complaint or appeasement.”
“I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.”
“One works without thinking how to work.”
“There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.”