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

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.

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.

You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.

I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

So we’re talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people’s lives in history.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.