Quotes by : Jasper Johns

I am not strong on perfection.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that....

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One....

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

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business.....

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly....

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and....

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.