Jasper Johns Quotes

• Para ser artista hay que renunciar a todo, incluido el deseo de ser un buen artista.

  Jasper Johns

  Inspiración, Vida, Belleza

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• Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Creative, Objects

  Joan Rothfuss, Jasper Johns, Walker Art Center (2003). “Past things and present: Jasper Johns since 1983”

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• It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

  Jasper Johns

  Simple

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• 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, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Taken, Journey

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• 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 people that they have to participate.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

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• 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 materials to begin it.

  Jasper Johns

  Morning, Night, Flags

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• My work is largely concerned
  with relations between
  seeing and knowing,
  seeing and saying,
  seeing and believing.

  Jasper Johns

  Believe, Knowing, Relation

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• There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

  Jasper Johns

  Ideas, May, Painting

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• When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

  Jasper Johns

  Alive, Treats, Awake

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

  Jasper Johns

  Different, Looks, Use

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• I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

  Jasper Johns

  Life, Failure, Would Be

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• 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. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.

  Jasper Johns

  Eye, Focus, Sometimes

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

  Jasper Johns

  Ideas, Way

  "The changing picture". www.newyorker.com. November 11, 1996.

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• I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Done, Sometimes

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

  Jasper Johns

  Space, Manipulation, Painting

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• I am not strong on perfection.

  Jasper Johns

  Strong, Perfection, Not Strong

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• 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 now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.

  Jasper Johns

  Pensar, Diferente, Manera

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• I'm working in my mind.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Artist, Mind

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• I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.

  Jasper Johns

  Judging, Personality, Ordinary

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• Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Appeasement, Art Is

  David Shapiro, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns Drawings, 1954-1984”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Thinking, Vision

  "Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.

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• One works without thinking how to work.

  Jasper Johns

  Work, Thinking

  Christian Geelhaar, Jasper Johns, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (1980). “Jasper Johns working proofs”

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• When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

  Jasper Johns

  Habit, Procedures

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

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Painting, Should

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• 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 but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Suggestions, Finals

  Jasper Johns, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1974). “Jasper Johns: drawings”

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