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

I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn't what I was interested in. All of it had an impact - as did happenings - because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn't the direction I really wanted to go.

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

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

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.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.