15 Jasper Johns Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jasper Johns

American Artist

Born: May 15, 1930

Artists Know Painting Think Work You

Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures. Jasper Johns

Way Find Pictures Make Am Trying Just

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. Jasper Johns

Good You Everything Give Up Artist Including Desire

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. Jasper Johns

Life Work Experience Differences Fragmented Those Kind Would Kinds Indication Some Vivid Like Another Occurs Very Different Happen Place Different Kind Certain Thing Things Things Happen

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. Jasper Johns

You Grace Energy Out Kind Some About Through Put Sort Sure Coming Often Just Holds Means Right

I tend to like things that already exist. Jasper Johns

Tend Like Exist Things

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. Jasper Johns

Thoughts Know How Organise

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. Jasper Johns

Life Mind Fragment Our Small Involves Intention Consciousness

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Jasper Johns

Space Think Changes Our About Ideas Likes Spaces Inhabit

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me. Jasper Johns

Me Whatever Seems False Artificial

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

Else Object Something Something Else Take

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. Jasper Johns

Time Me Strong Long Long Time Become Nothing Way Would Would-Be Some Seemed Knew Know How Condition Very Did Any Artist Being Wanting Ever Nearer Image Bring

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. Jasper Johns

Work Humor Wish See More Were Than

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