Author: Jasper Johns

Quotes

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 or bad.

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 or bad.

- Jasper Johns

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

- Jasper Johns

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

- Jasper Johns

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

- Jasper Johns

One works without thinking how to work.

One works without thinking how to work.

- Jasper Johns

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 another.

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 another.

- Jasper Johns

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 conscious reason.

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 conscious reason.

- Jasper Johns

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

- Jasper Johns

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

- Jasper Johns

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