What did Jasper Johns mean by: Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. - Jasper Johns Painter · USA Copy
+ 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
+ There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, Ideas, Painting, 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
+ 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
+ I’m working in my mind. Feraz Zeid, September 25, 2023December 24, 2023, Jasper Johns, Art, Artist, Mind, 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 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
+ I love drawings, so I’ve always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jasper Johns, Drawing, Enjoyed, 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
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France