Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space… but I don’t understand that. Jasper Johns Read Quote
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. Jasper Johns Read Quote
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 Read Quote
This image of wanting to be an artist – that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that’s what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn’t know how to do it. Jasper Johns Read Quote
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. Jasper Johns Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. Jasper Johns Read Quote
