I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.

When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your work that it would be you, and that would be all that was required. It would be honest, and the core of your personality would come out if you responded to position and contrasts in your work.

I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

I've never done an anguished painting.

I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it.

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.