” Everyone 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 one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. “
” One works without thinking how to work. “
” My experience of life is that it’s very fragmented, certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. “
” At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. “
All 5 Jasper Johns Quotes about Work in picture



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