Category - Jasper Johns

Discover the thoughtful and inspirational Quotes of Jasper Johns, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history.
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Jasper Johns

To me, self-description is a calamity.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

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

Jasper Johns

I’m not sure what ‘coming out right’ means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn’t just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

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 whole thing.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, ‘I am an artist.’ Before that, for many years, I had said, ‘I’m going to be an artist.’ Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made ‘going to be an artist’ into ‘being an artist’, was, in part, a spiritual change.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn’t aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn’t aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

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

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

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 of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

– Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

My experience of life is that it’s very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

– Jasper Johns

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