“ I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. ”
My 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
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
I 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.
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
