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Jasper Johns

"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 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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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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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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"I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts."
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"In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I tend to like things that already exist."
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"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
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