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.
More Quotes by Jasper Johns
I am not strong on perfection.
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.
Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
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.