One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is … - Jasper Johns

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Jasper Johns

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

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