“I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.”

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.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.

Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.

Pop Art is industrial painting.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

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.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it’s also rewarding because it’s possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way,

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia’s most exciting new novelists.

You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’

And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.