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Art Quotes by Jasper Johns
- Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
- 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…
- In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.…
- Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
- I'm working in my mind.
- There was very little art in my childhood.
- 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…
- 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…
- Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov