Pop Art Looks Out Into

All My Art Is In Some Way About Other Art, Even If The Other Art Is Cartoons.

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

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.

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.

When I Met Steve Kaufman, I Thought He Was Gene Simmons, But What An Artist Talent He Is. He Will Be An Art Force In The Art World To Deal With.