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Jasper Johns Quotes about Art

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Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Jasper Johns
Art, Creative, Objects
Joan Rothfuss, Jasper Johns, Walker Art Center (2003). “Past things and present: Jasper Johns since 1983”

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.

Jasper Johns
Art, Taken, Journey

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.

Jasper Johns
Art, Mean, Opportunity

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Jasper Johns
Art, Appeasement, Art Is
David Shapiro, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns Drawings, 1954-1984”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

I'm working in my mind.

Jasper Johns
Art, Artist, Mind

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."

Jasper Johns
Art, Thinking, Vision
"Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

Jasper Johns
Art, Children, Thinking
"Jasper Johns: Ideas In Paint, About the Painter". "American Masters", www.pbs.org. March 28, 2008.

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
Art, Museums, Childhood
"Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Jasper Johns
Art, Criticism, Offers
Jasper Johns, Hans Namuth (1992). “Jasper Johns: gravures et dessins de la collection Castelli, 1960-1991 : portraits de l'artiste par Hans Namuth, 1962-1989 : Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, Palais de Luppé, 4 juillet-30 septembre 1992”

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Jasper Johns
Art, Reality, Childhood
"New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

There was very little art in my childhood.

Jasper Johns
Art, Childhood, Littles
"Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

Jasper Johns
Art, Sound, Cages
"John Adds Plaster Casts To Focus Target Paintings". Donald Key, Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1960.

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