"One works without thinking how to work."

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Source : Christian Geelhaar, Jasper Johns, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (1980). “Jasper Johns working proofs”

Jasper Johns

#Thinking Quotes

“My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends...”
“What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasn't it an island? "He was carrying a load of laundry into the basement and tripped on the old set of LEGOs his kids left on the stairs. Broke two ribs and an ankle.”
“Today my son and I went for a stroll and saw the sea lions and watched the sunset and played ball in the park with our dog.”
“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.”
“In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.”
“If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else?”

Source : Song: Love Street, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me
“Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.”
“But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.”

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