107 Quotes by Jasper Johns

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

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

There was very little art in my childhood.

I never wish for critics.

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

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

One works without thinking how to work.