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… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?)… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
It's almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
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… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.'… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
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… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
