Pop Art Is Industrial Painting. I Think

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.

Color Is Crucial In Painting, But It Is Very Hard To Talk About.

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.

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.