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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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More quotes by 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.
Jasper Johns
I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
Jasper Johns
I tend to like things that already exist.
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 don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
Jasper Johns
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 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
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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.
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I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Jasper Johns
Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
Jasper Johns
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Jasper Johns
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
Jasper Johns
It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.
Jasper Johns
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
Jasper Johns
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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
