To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
Jasper JohnsI have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
Jasper JohnsIn 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. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.
Jasper JohnsI decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
Jasper Johns