It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.
Jasper JohnsIntention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
Jasper JohnsEarly on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
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