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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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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

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"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

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"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

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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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"One works without thinking how to work."
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"I am just trying to find a way to make pictures."
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"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist."
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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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"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 think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
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"I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts."
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