One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
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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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Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
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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.
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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.
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I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal-monotonous.
Jasper Johns in Newsweek (24 October 1977)
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The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
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I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
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As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
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