Outside Is The World; It's There. Pop

What Interests Me Is To Paint The Kind Of Antisensitivity That Impregnates Modern Civilization. I Think Art Since Cezanne Has Become Extremely Romantic And Unrealistic, Feeding On Art. It Is Utopian. It Has Less And Less To Do With The World. It Looks Inward - Neo-zen And All That. Pop Art Looks Out Into The World. It Doesn't Look Like A Painting Of Something, It Looks Like The Thing Itself.

Color Is Crucial In Painting, But It Is Very Hard To Talk About. There Is Almost Nothing You Can Say That Holds Up As A Generalization, Because It Depends On Too Many Factors: Size, Modulation, The Rest Of The Field, A Certain Consistency That Color Has With Forms, And The Statement You're Trying To Make.

In America The Biggest Is The Best.

I Don't Think That I'm Over His Influence But They Probably Don't Look Like Picassos; Picasso Himself Would Probably Have Thrown Up Looking At My Pictures.

Everybody Knows That Abstract Art Can Be Art, And Most People Know That They May Not Like It, Even If They Understand There's Another Purpose To It.