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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
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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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
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 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 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 don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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 likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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
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 think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
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
I am not strong on perfection.
Jasper Johns
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
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
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
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
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
Jasper Johns
The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
Jasper Johns
