My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
Jasper JohnsMake something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?
Jasper JohnsEverybody 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.
Jasper JohnsOne night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.
Jasper JohnsI have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.
Jasper Johns