One works without thinking how to work. 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 ballsboardsuse 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 leavingcolornames 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 cagessoundart 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 strongambitionthinking I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't. Jasper Johns wellspeople 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 differencespeoplethinking 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 believechildrenideas Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that. Jasper Johns thensomething 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-happenexperienceworklife 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 somepaintingcolorwork 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 badgoodyouwork 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 picturethinkworkway
