“Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.”

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.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.

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.

Maybe I’m just a freak of nature, but I like every aspect of touring. I like it when you play amazing shows and everyone’s in high spirits, I like hating everything and wanting to be alone, I like the days that are boring and there’s nothing to do, I love the time wasted. I love everything about it.

You’re sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe’s provision.

My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I’ve noticed.

Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.