I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to invest more rather than less and go as far in his effort to communicate his inner image as he can.