When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

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

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.

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

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?