Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.
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 JohnsOne likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
Jasper Johns