All My Art Is In Some Way

Picasso's Always Been Such A Huge Influence That I Thought When I Started The Cartoon Paintings That I Was Getting Away From Picasso, And Even My Cartoons Of Picasso Were Done Almost To Rid Myself Of His Influence.

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 Dont Have Big Anxieties. I Wish I Did. Id Be Much More Interesting.

Outside Is The World; It's There. Pop Art Looks Out Into The World.

What Interests Me Is To Paint The Kind Of Antisensitivity That Impregnates Modern Civilization. I Think Art Since Cezanne Has Become Extremely Romantic And Unrealistic, Feeding On Art. It Is Utopian. It Has Less And Less To Do With The World. It Looks Inward - Neo-zen And All That. Pop Art Looks Out Into The World. It Doesn't Look Like A Painting Of Something, It Looks Like The Thing Itself.