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.
– Jasper Johns
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
– Jasper Johns
I tend to like things that already exist.
– Jasper Johns
Ideas either come or they don't come.
– Jasper Johns
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
– Jasper Johns
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.