Jasper Johns

Some Jasper Johns quotes that you might be interested in reading.

"Say, the painting of a flag is always less about a flag that it is about a brushstroke or about a color or about the physicality of the paint, I think."

"Two meanings have been ascribed to these American Flag paintings of mine. One opposition is: 'He's painted a flag so you don't have to think of it as a flag but only as a painting.' The other is: 'You are enabled by the way he has painted it to see it as a flag and not as a painting.'"