Jasper Johns quote: I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to ...

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

~ Jasper Johns ~

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