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.
Jasper JohnsGenerally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
Jasper JohnsMost of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
Jasper JohnsCubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
Jasper JohnsMy 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 Johns