To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. Jasper Johns Read Quote
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn’t aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. Jasper Johns Read Quote
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.’ Jasper Johns Read Quote
I’m not sure what ‘coming out right’ means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn’t just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort. Jasper Johns Read Quote
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 Read Quote
