Jasper Johns quotes - page 3

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own. (Jasper Johns)
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. View quote
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I tend to like things that already exist. View quote
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. View quote
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I never wish for critics. View quote
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To me, self-description is a calamity. View quote
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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. View quote
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I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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