I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.
Jasper JohnsWhen something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
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 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 JohnsIโm interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
Jasper Johns