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
art artist mind
I'm working in my mind.
artist intellectual important
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.
beautiful giving-up artist
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
taken artist confusion
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.
artist favorite-artist fields
Merce is my favorite artist in any field,
bad consider extreme good interest might ways work
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.
humor work
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
knew none somewhere
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.
art aware interest local minor museum paintings raised south
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.
change mind sometime
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.
certain experience indication kinds life vivid work
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.
Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.
course interpret picture work
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
absence attack early involved notion object work
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.