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Jasper Johns Quotes

Jasper Johns quotes about thinking

American Artist May 15, 1930

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I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying. Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns quote: "One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces..."
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Jasper Johns
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. 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
Jasper Johns quote: "One works without thinking how to work."
One works without thinking how to work. Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns quote: "I think a painting should include more experience than simply..."
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. Jasper Johns
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. Jasper Johns

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