"I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat."

-- Art Donovan

“Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.”
“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
“Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.”

Source : Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”
“It's hard to want to let somebody into your house.”
“Death is the tyrant of the imagination.”
“During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.”

Source : New River Media Interview, www.pbs.org.
“A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.”
“Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.”

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