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 Read Quote
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don’t think that’s a painter’s business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. Jasper Johns Read Quote
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 Read Quote
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Jasper Johns Read Quote
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. Jasper Johns Read Quote
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 Read Quote
