In America The Biggest Is The Best.

I Take A Cliche And Try To Organize Its Forms To Make It Monumental. The Difference Is Often Not Great, But It Is Crucial.

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.

I'm Never Drawing The Object Itself; I'm Only Drawing A Depiction Of The Object - A Kind Of Crystallized Symbol Of It.

Yes, You Know Sometimes, We Started Out Thinking Out How Strange Our Painting Was Next To Normal Painting, Which Was Anything Expressionist. You Forget That This Has Been Thirty Five Years Now And People Don't Look At It As If It Were Some Kind Of Oddity.

The Big Tradition, I Think, Is Unity. And I Have That In Mind; And With That, You Know, You Could Break All The Traditions- All The Other So-called Rules, Because They Are Stylistic.. And Most Are Not True. As Long As The Marks Are Related To One Another, There Is Unity. Unity In The Work Itself Depends On Unity Of The Artist's Vision.