Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.

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

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I didn’t want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.

But certainly the Abstract Expressionists were in a more romantic mode of painting, or give and take, than my paintings are seen to be anyway.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I’ve always been honest, open, and upfront.

I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don’t respond to that the way I used to.

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work...

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it’s possible to learn how things are done – the mechanics of writing, so to speak – and which genres and...

For me context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It’s an avenue to say what you want to say.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don’t write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

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

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there’s a consistency that...

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It’s pushing the envelope. It’s the truth of something through exaggeration.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

I’m writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who’d studied with him.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t...

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don’t know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who’s into Satan.

And within the world that you’ve created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can’t be amorphous and changing.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

There’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

I’m a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I’ll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don’t want to do that.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting...

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.