When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
From Jasper Johns
My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.
Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
To me, self-description is a calamity.
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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