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I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

Jasper Johns
Thinking, Suggestions, Finals
Jasper Johns, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1974). “Jasper Johns: drawings”
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.