"A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of...

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I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
More Jasper Johns quotes
"In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due t...
"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...
"My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs...
"Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
"Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.