What did Jasper Johns mean by: I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don’t. - Jasper Johns Painter · USA Copy
+ Merce is my favorite artist in any field. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Jasper Johns, Artist, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
+ I don’t know how to organise thoughts. I don’t know how to have thoughts. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
+ One’s range [of ideas] is limited by one’s interests and imagination and by one’s passion. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, Ideas, Imagination, Passion, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
+ Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, Art, Criticism, Offers, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
+ Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, Consciousness, Intention, Mind, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
+ One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, Ideas, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
+ Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Feraz Zeid, August 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Jasper Johns, Art, Creative, Objects, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
+ To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, Beautiful, 0 - Jasper Johns Painter · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
