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Painting Quotes by Jasper Johns
- I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
- Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
- Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
- 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…
- There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
- To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion…
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- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
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- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat