"Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye."

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Source : Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

Jasper Johns

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