I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. - "Jasper Johns"

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Jasper Johns

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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.
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My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.
- Jasper Johns