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

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.

In America the biggest is the best.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

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

You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

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.

I’m a father, a son, and a grandson, and if anyone messed with my wife, mom, or grandmother, and if the law didn’t care about it, what would I do? Would I be defined by that action?

With everything I do, I just try to be myself.

I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.

So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

When you got people behind you, you can do whatever.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.