Jasper Johns Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.”

“One works without thinking how to work.”

“I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.”

“I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.”

“To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.”

“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.”

“Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”