“I think about most things that I make as quite topographic. So you imagine a landscape, the different materials in it, then just begin to translate them. Making a painting using a thousand different cuts brings that paint to life. Inside of this exists maybe 300 abstract micro-paintings. And then stepping back, just one large macro.”
—Rashid Johnson, quoted in Mara Veitch, “Artist Rashid Johnson Isn’t the Plant-Parenting Type”, Interview Magazine,15 November 2019

「我認為大多數我製作的東西都具有地形特徵。試想像一幅風景畫,當中會用到不同材料,然後你開始轉化它們。用一千個不同的剪裁方法製作繪畫,就可以賦予畫作生命力。也許畫作中有三百幅微型抽象作品,但退後一步來看,就會見到一幅宏觀的大尺幅作品。」
—引述拉希德・約翰遜,載瑪拉・維奇,〈藝術家拉希德・約翰遜並非痴迷栽種植物的那類人〉,《採訪雜誌》,2019年11月15日