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.

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.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

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.

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

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

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