I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
Jasper Johns
One works without thinking how to work.
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
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... →
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
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... →
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.
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.
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... →
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson