Your sense of privacy is very different from Robert Rauschenberg's isn't it?" I asked, naming the artist with whom he was the most intimate when they were both young...according to Leo Castelli "Whebn they are with each other , they are amiable but there 's not much left for them to share. ORiginally Rauschenberg was the older man, more expereinced. And of course Bob is so ebulien. Whereas for JAsper , every stroke he paints is an effort" I remember once saying to Johns that he and Rauscnehnberg struck me as so different, Johns exclaimed "Thank God"!...From Arts and LEtters, a collection of Edmund White's essays on artists and writers, 270