All Jasper Johns Quotes
- There was very little art in my childhood. Art
- When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing. Develop
- One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion. Ideas
- Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me. Artificial
- 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… Believe
- Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away… Able
- 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… Attention
- 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… Absolutely
- It's almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience… Describe
- I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't. Inspirational
- I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about.… Able
- 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… Business
- I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings. Exposure
- There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was… Any
- I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. Assumed
- Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. Art
- I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. Humor
- What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good… Artist
- Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is… Course
- Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that. Something