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
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.
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.
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.
way looks ought
A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.
trying way
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
believe way rooms
The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
looks use way
I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.
civilization vision way
That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.
thinking way different
I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.
thinking way one-thing
Everybody 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.
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.