We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We're using those things – but we're not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

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.

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

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.

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.

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

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