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

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 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.

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

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

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