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.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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

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

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

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