Jasper Johns Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Museums, Childhood

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

• There was very little art in my childhood.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Childhood, Littles

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

• Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Reality, Childhood

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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