Quotes by Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.

Looks

Ought

Way

A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of “thought.” It is not “thought” which needs showing.

Ideas

Needs

Together

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 from things I didn’t like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Art

Childhood

Reality

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Appeasement

Art

Art Is

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.

Art

Journey

Taken

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface – trace the object – then bend the object – leaving some part of it attached.

Color

Leaving

Names

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

Cubism

Want

Way

Donald Judd spoke of a ‘neutral’ surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used ‘non’ or ‘not’ – expressive – this is an early problem – a negative solution or – expression of new sense – which can help one into – what one has not known. ‘Neutral’ expresses an intention.

Expression

Negative

Thinking

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Different

Ideas

Painting

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

Artist

Important

Intellectual

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Appeasement

Art

Art Is

Artificial

Artist

Awake

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Beautiful

Believe

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Cages

Childhood

Children

Civilization

Clue

Color

Consciousness

Courses

Creative

Criticism

Critics

Cubism

Decided

Description

Differences

Different

Doe

Done

Drawing

Energy

Enjoyed

Exposure

Expression

Eye

Failure

Fall

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Fields

Finals

Flags

Focus

Garden

Grace

Gun

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Quotes by Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.

A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of “thought.” It is not “thought” which needs showing.

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 from things I didn’t like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

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.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface – trace the object – then bend the object – leaving some part of it attached.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

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