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
wish critics
I never wish for critics.
art appeasement art-is
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
ideas different painting
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
habit procedures
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
thinking ideas world
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
I tend to like things that already exist.
know-how knows
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
morning night next
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.
differences space vivid
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
art museums childhood
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.
passion ideas imagination
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
alive treats awake
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
thinking
One works without thinking how to work.
art thinking vision
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".