Jasper Johns Quotes

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

~ Jasper Johns

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

~ Jasper Johns

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.

~ Jasper Johns

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

~ Jasper Johns

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

~ 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.

~ Jasper Johns

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

~ Jasper Johns

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

I am not strong on perfection.

~ 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 seem a freedom or a confusion.

~ Jasper Johns