Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Jasper JohnsI assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
Jasper JohnsIn my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party 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.
Jasper JohnsTags: art
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Jasper JohnsTags: art
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
Jasper JohnsTags: art
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper JohnsTags: art
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.
Jasper JohnsTags: art
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.
Jasper JohnsA 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.
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I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.
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