Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Early works were composed using simple schema such as flags maps targets letters and numbers. [citation needed] Still many compilations on pop art include Jasper Johns as a pop artist because of his artistic use of classical iconography.

Jasper Johns Jr. (born May 15 1930) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.