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One Quotes by 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,…
- 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.…
- One works without thinking how to work.
- My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of…
- In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and…
- I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement…
- Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is…
- One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the…
- 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…
- One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
- One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the…
- One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare