Best quotes by Jasper Johns on Work

Checkout quotes by Jasper Johns on Work

• ‟ I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ One works without thinking how to work.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

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• ‟ I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

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• ‟ 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.

  - Jasper Johns