Quote of Jasper Johns, as cited in Trend to the Anti-Art: Targets and Flags, Newsweek 51 no. 13, March 1958, p. 96
1950s
“Painting doesn't interest me... What I paint is beyond painting.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
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Conversation with Karen Wilkin' (1986-1988)

“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”
Source: Henri, Robert (2007) [1923], p. 285.

Quote in 'Travelling Man', Time January 1948
1941 - 1967

“Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.”
his remark, shortly after the death of his second wife Alice in 1911; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 76
1900 - 1920

“I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American scene.”
Cited in: Ian Chilvers, "Davis, Stuart," in: The Oxford Dictionary of Art, (2994). p. 195

“I paint the impossibility of painting.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”
Source: CAT'S EYE.