Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson was an American visual artist and collagist, associated with the pop art, Fluxus, and mail art movements of the twentieth century.
Born in Detroit in 1927, Johnson attended Cass Technical High School before going on to study at Black Mountain College. He moved to New York City in 1949 and lived there until 1968, after which he relocated to a small town on Long Island, where he remained until his death.
Johnson founded the New York Correspondence School and was known as a correspondence artist, making the exchange of art through the mail a central part of his practice. This placed him within the mail art movement, a network built around sending and receiving materials through postal systems. His associations with Fluxus and pop art situated him among some of the more experimental tendencies in American art during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Johnson died on January 13, 1995, in Sag Harbor, New York. His founding of the New York Correspondence School and his identity as a correspondence artist remain the most concrete markers of his place within the mail art movement.
Quotes by Ray Johnson
It takes a strong man to accept somebody else’s children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.
It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.
Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.
The man who is here with, he's helped me. A couple of other people has helped me. I'm waiting on FEMA to give me their part, because the president said you're entitled to 2000 dollars and that check has been mailed.
I didn't ever think I was going to lose my son and wife no never... no. A gush of water hit me in my chest and I lost my balance for about three seconds and when I did my son went over the back of my neck and over my wife's head and into the water. I turned around and I seen my wife go under. When I got to her I went under and I picked her feet up to hurl her up and she fell over. And she was floating to I knew she was dead,
That (score) wasn't any indication of the game. We did a good job of getting the ball in the right people's hands in the end. Then they did what they do (best). Marquis had a heck of a game.
They did a great job. You can't take anything from them. Defensively, we just couldn't do anything.
They have the confidence of their teammates that they'll make the play to win the game. It's been an unusually good class of point guards. Usually you don't see that many. We won't know how much we miss them until they're gone.
They make so many things happen that you have to point your defense at them. They make their team go. You go in with the idea that, if you can stop him, you can stop the team. But that's easier said than done.
