List of Jasper Johns Quotes

To Me, Self-description Is A Calamity.

I Would Tend To Say That I Do What I Do As Well As Possible And That Most People Don't.

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.

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.

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.

I Love Drawings, So I've Always Enjoyed Making Drawings That Exist On Their Own.

I'm Not Sure What 'coming Out Right' Means. It Often Means That What You Do Holds A Kind Of Energy That You Wouldn't Just Put There, That Comes About Through Grace Of Some Sort.

Object In/ And Space - The First Impulse May Be To Give The Object - A Position - To Place The Object. (the Object Had A Position To Begin With.) Next - To Change The Position Of The Object. - Rauschenberg's Early Sculptures - A Board With Some Rocks On It. The Rocks Can Be Anywhere On The Board. - Cage's Japanese Rock Garden - The Rocks Can Be Anywhere (within The Garden).

One Likes To Think That One Anticipates Changes In The Spaces We Inhabit, And Our Ideas About Space.

Old Art Offers Just As Good A Criticism Of New Art As New Art Offers Of Old.

Merce Is My Favorite Artist In Any Field.

There Was Very Little Art In My Childhood.