Jasper Johns Quotes

• Things that are seen but not looked at.

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• Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

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• Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

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• I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn’t matter – that would be my life.

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• I don’t want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

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• I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn’t aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.

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• 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.

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• I don’t know how to organise thoughts. I don’t know how to have thoughts.

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• I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

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• I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

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• I never wish for critics.

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• I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

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  I tend to like things that already exist.

   

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• 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.

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• Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

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• One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

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• Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space… but I don’t understand that.

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Jasper Johns (37)

Birth:	15th May, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

About

Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He is an American painter associated with Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop art. He studied at the University of South Carolina from 1947 to 1948, and at the Parsons School of Design in 1949. He is best known for his painting Flag, which he painted after having a dream of the American flag. His work is often described as Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture.

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