Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johnsis an American painter and printmaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth15 May 1930
CityAugusta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
want way cubism
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
eye focus sometimes
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.
ideas way
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.
feelings want exposure
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
art criticism offers
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
gun personality feelings
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.
ideas together needs
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.
thinking want suggestions
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.
art mean opportunity
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.
believe knowing relation
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.
strong perfection not-strong
I am not strong on perfection.
mind consciousness intention
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
truth seems artificial
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
way looks ought
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.