I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Reality is always too complicated - that's why it's ungraspable.

About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.