“ 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
“ 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… Jasper Johns
“ One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Jasper Johns
“ 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
“ 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 freedom or a confusion. Jasper Johns
“ In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort o… Jasper Johns
“ 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
“ A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs… Jasper Johns
“ 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 sayi… Jasper Johns
“ My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indicati… 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
