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Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.
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 would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.
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
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
Jasper Johns
I am not strong on perfection.
Jasper Johns
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
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
Jasper Johns
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
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
Jasper Johns
To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
Jasper Johns
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
Jasper Johns
Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
Jasper Johns
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
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 am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
Jasper Johns
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
Jasper Johns
I tend to like things that already exist.
Jasper Johns
