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Work 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,…
- Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.…
- 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…
- 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…
- I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
- 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…
- When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
- 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…
- 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.…
- I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
- I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon