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

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.

The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.

Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Grief is itself a medicine.

Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

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