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I make what it pleases me to make.. ..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. I intuitively paint flags.

— Jasper Johns

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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. .I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

People say that my works are "neutral". But if you paint something, it is "something", and it cannot be neutral. Being neutral is a mere expression of a form of intention.

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