Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

My goal is that LOVE should cover the world.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

Everyone serves a purpose.