Jasper Johns Spreekt: “ The kinds of meaning and order that we may find in works of art, I suspect, rarely duplicate those that the artists who made them might find. Most artists don’t concentrate on the past, and hope that their work gives us a sense of the present. Any artist probably feels that his work is logical. That doesn’t mean that it was pre-imagined, only that it seemed unavoidable, inevitable. “
Jasper Johns in his Pearl Street studio in front of Target with Four Faces, 1955. Photo by Robert Rauschenberg
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