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I'm Not Looking For Images, They Just Appear And Take On An Interest. Sometimes You Look At A Thing And It Has No Interest And Then You See It In A Different Way And It Has Another Meaning. Or Something That Was Of No Use Will Become Useful.

-Jasper Johns

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I'm Not Looking For Images,

Jasper Johns

I'm Not Looking For Images, They Just Appear And Take On An Interest. Sometimes You Look At A Thing And It Has No Interest And Then You See It In A Different Way And It Has Another Meaning. Or Something That Was Of No Use Will Become Useful.

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