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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
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
Jasper Johns
I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.
Jasper Johns
I tend to like things that already exist.
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
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Jasper Johns
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
Jasper Johns
To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns
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
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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
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 am not strong on perfection.
Jasper Johns
Merce is my favorite artist in any field.
Jasper Johns
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.
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
