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Jasper Johns [1930-0] American

Rank: 102
Artist (with paintings), Painter
Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, pop art

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop art.

Art, Humor

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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.	Art	101
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.		102
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.		103
I am not strong on perfection.	Art	104
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.		105
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.		106
I tend to like things that already exist.		107
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.		108
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.		109
The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.		110
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'		111
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.		112
Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.		113
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.		114
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.		115
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.		116
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.		117
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.		118
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.		119
Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.		120
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.		121
To me, self-description is a calamity.		122
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.		123
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.		124
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.		125
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.		126
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.		201
I never wish for critics.		202
One works without thinking how to work.		203
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.		204
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.		205
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.		206
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.		207
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.		208
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.	Humor	209
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.		210
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.		211
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.		212
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.		213

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