Jasper Johns Quotes

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

What is familiar tends to become a value.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

The status quo is a powerful force.

I think we stick with what we know.

I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

Piety and virtue lie in obedience and conformity, while nothing is more repugnant than change and innovation.

…the burden of proof rests always upon the advocates of change.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

Rule, and change nothing.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.

The adherents of the old order have a powerful ally in the natural law of inertia inherent in humanity which is … a natural defense against change.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common