The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.