About Jasper Johns: Jasper Johns is an American painter and printmaker.
Everyone 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.
One works without thinking how to work.
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.
