Jasper Johns

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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I never wish for critics. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #never #wish

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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#else #find #getting #having #head

I tend to like things that already exist. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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

— Jasper Johns

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Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#then

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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #child #i #know #meant

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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

— Jasper Johns

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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. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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