Jasper Johns

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#life #life

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#feelings #i #want #work

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art

Art is either a complaint or appeasement. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#freedom

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#find #i #i am #just #make

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

#course #everyone #free #his #i

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

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #know #organise #thoughts

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#awake #clear #experience #feel #new