I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. Jasper Johns More Quotes by Jasper Johns More Quotes From Jasper Johns I'm working in my mind. Jasper Johns artistmindart There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. Jasper Johns paintingmayideas I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought. Jasper Johns differentwaythinking 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. Jasper Johns childrenartthinking Everybody 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 courseswaythinking Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention. Jasper Johns expressionnegativethinking One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion. Jasper Johns passionimaginationideas 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 courseswantworld A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator. Jasper Johns oughtlooksway 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 suggestionsfinalsthinking That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization. Jasper Johns visiondoecivilization I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own. Jasper Johns love-drawingsenjoyeddrawing I never wish for critics. Jasper Johns criticswish One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Jasper Johns spaceideasthinking I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. Jasper Johns paintingshouldthinking There was very little art in my childhood. Jasper Johns childhoodlittlesart 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. Jasper Johns energygracemean Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might. Jasper Johns childhoodrealityart Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me. Jasper Johns artificialtruthseems I am just trying to find a way to make pictures. Jasper Johns tryingway
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