Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.