A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator. Jasper Johns More Quotes by Jasper Johns More Quotes From Jasper Johns Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board. Jasper Johns balls boards use Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached. Jasper Johns leaving color names I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art. Jasper Johns cages sound art I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction. Jasper Johns strong ambition thinking I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't. Jasper Johns wells people It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people. Jasper Johns differences people thinking Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit. Jasper Johns believe children ideas Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that. Jasper Johns then something 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 things-happen experience work life At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. Jasper Johns some painting color work What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad. Jasper Johns bad good you work 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 picture think work way
