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

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

But 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.

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.

I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.

The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.

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

Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.

There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….

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

You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.

Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.

He’s the president. I’m the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.

I don’t want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.