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

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.

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.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

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.

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American; it will be universal.