#mp

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#i love #jumping #love #once #remember

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #i see #impure #neither #other

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#competitive #dynamic #i #london #place

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#confident #got #i #i think #important

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#just #lib #surrounded #vacuum #vast

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#first #important #modern #more #mostly

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks. ↗

— Don Johnson

#i #just #sea #sharks #simple