Jasper Johns Quotes

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I love being creative in all forms.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

Art is my life and my life is art.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.