on not knowing what you're doing

'Even after 60 years of making art, though, Johns is still not entirely at ease with his practice. “I laboured over these a lot,” he says of “Regrets”. “Somehow what you end up with seems to be something you should have known was there to begin with, even though you had to work so hard to find it.”

That being an artist is still so arduous perplexes him. “I worry about the difficulty of making things, or the difficulty of knowing what to do,” he admits. “I may think, having been working at this all these years, why don’t I find it easy? Since it’s a relatively simple activity."

Article about Jasper Johns here:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/65e763c8-9444-11e3-a0e1-00144feab7de.html#axzz2tJWkNHfw




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