I think we're much smarter than we were. 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.

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.

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

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.