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Jasper Johns

"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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"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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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."

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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."

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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."

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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

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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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"I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts."
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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 am just trying to find a way to make pictures."
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"Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life."
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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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"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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"I tend to like things that already exist."
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"One works without thinking how to work."
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