I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

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.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

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

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.