Jasper Johns Quotes
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Jasper Johns Quotes
- Name:
- Jasper Johns
- Type:
- Artist
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth day:
- May 15
- Birth year:
- 1930
- 1
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. Jasper Johns
- 2
Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that. Jasper Johns
- 3
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. Jasper Johns
- 4
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. Jasper Johns
- 5
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
- 6
I tend to like things that already exist. Jasper Johns
- 7
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. Jasper Johns
- 8
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in. Jasper Johns
- 9
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. Jasper Johns
- 10
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. Jasper Johns
- 11
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Jasper Johns
- 12
One works without thinking how to work. Jasper Johns
- 13
The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another. Jasper Johns
- 14
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me. Jasper Johns
- 15
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. Jasper Johns