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I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
Jasper Johns
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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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.
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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.
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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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Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
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
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
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.
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To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns
I am not strong on perfection.
Jasper Johns
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
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.
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One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
Jasper Johns
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
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
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
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
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
