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

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.

My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.

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.

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.