I’m 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 JohnsOne likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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 JohnsTo be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Jasper Johns