Frasi di Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns è un pittore statunitense, il maggiore esponente del New Dada unitamente a Robert Rauschenberg. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Maggio 1930
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Jasper Johns Frasi e Citazioni

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Jasper Johns: Frasi in inglese

“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”

as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008
2000s

“I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.”

Quote from Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 202
1990s

“An invisible drawing made in the air. Make a drawing behind your back. Make a stolen painting.”

Book A (sketchbook), p 40, c 1963-64: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 53
1960s

“Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.”

Jasper Johns in Tokyo, Yoshiaki Tono, Tokyo August 1964, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed; Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 104
1960s

“The relationship between the object & the event. Can they 2 be separated? Is one a detail of the other? What is the meeting? Air?”

Book A (sketchbook), p 8, c 1960: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 49
1960s

“[to see the painting].. as an object, as a real thing in itself. (quote on his Flag-paintings)”

Quote from: Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 200
1950s

“Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.”

as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008
2000s

“Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting.”

ruler on board.
Book A (sketchbook), p 52, c 1964: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 58
1960s

“I made the flags and targets to open men's eyes.... [they] were both things - which are seen and not looked at - examined.”

John's own comment on his exhibition of the 'Flag, Target and Number' paintings in 1958
1950s

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