I Like To Pretend That My Art

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'd Always Wanted To Know The Difference Between A Mark That Was Art And One That Wasn't.

I Was At Rutgers University, And That Was A Center For Fluxus In A Way. But It Wasn't What I Was Interested In. All Of It Had An Impact - As Did Happenings - Because I Could See That Art Was Changing From Expressionism, Which I Was Doing At The Time, Or Thought I Was Doing. But It Wasn't The Direction I Really Wanted To Go.

We Like To Think Of Industrialization As Being Despicable. I Don't Really Know What To Make Of It. There’s Something Terribly Brittle About It. 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. There Are Certain Things That Are Usable, Forceful, And Vital About Commercial Art. We're Using Those Things – But We're Not Really Advocating Stupidity, International Teenagerism, And Terrorism.

I Don't Think That I'm Over His Influence But They Probably Don't Look Like Picassos; Picasso Himself Would Probably Have Thrown Up Looking At My Pictures.