"What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Ce…"

"Pop Art is the use of commercial art as a subject matter in painting, I suppose. It was hard to get a painting that w…"

"Well, it [ (Pop Art ] is an involvement with what I think to be the most brazen and threatening characteristics of ou…"

"'How can you [accept] exploitation?' 'How can you like the complete mechanization of work?' 'How can you like bad art…"

"I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and c…"

"Organized perception is what is art all about.. .It is a process. It has nothing to do with any external form the pai…"

"In Abstract Expressionism the paintings symbolize the idea of ground-directedness as opposed to object-directedness. …"

"Artists have never worked with the model – just with the painting. What you [G. R. Swenson, the interviewer] are real…"

"My work is actually different from comic strips in that every mark is really in a different place, however slight the…"

"I paint directly – then it's said to be an exact copy; and not art, probably because there's no perspective or shadin…"