Jasper Johns Painting Quotations

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.