Jasper Johns Quotes

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

Football, like life, is about change.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

One withers, another grows.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

All things change, nothing perishes.

And change isn't destruction. It's just change.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.