Jasper Johns Quotes

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, h...

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

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit togeth...

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

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was part...

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

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and...

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another p...

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that wo...

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work ...

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work ...

I am not strong on perfection.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's bus...