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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.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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More quotes by Jasper Johns
I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.
Jasper Johns
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
Jasper Johns
Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.
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A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.
Jasper Johns
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
Jasper Johns
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
Jasper Johns
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
Jasper Johns
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
Jasper Johns
To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper Johns
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
Jasper Johns
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
Jasper Johns
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
Jasper Johns
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
Jasper Johns
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
Jasper Johns
Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.
Jasper Johns
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Jasper Johns
That’s what painting does it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.
Jasper Johns
I am not strong on perfection.
Jasper Johns
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
Jasper Johns
