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.
I tend to like things that already exist. - Jasper Johns
I tend to like things that already exist.
- Jasper Johns
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. - Jasper Johns
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. - Jasper Johns
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. - Jasper Johns
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing. - Jasper Johns
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.
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… - Jasper Johns
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…
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. - Jasper Johns
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something. - Jasper Johns
It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. - Jasper Johns
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
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