Japser Johns

A frequently cited passage from Jasper Johns' notebooks reads:

Take an object.
Do something to it.
Do something else to it.
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Portrait of a Lady

She appeared to have, in her experience, a touchstone for everything, and somewhere in the capacious pocket of her genial memory she would find the key to Henrietta's virtue. "That is the great thing," Isabel reflected; "that is the supreme good fortune: to be in a better position for appreciating people than they are for appreciating you."
-Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.