Artist

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

I can handle ups and downs.

There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.

Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.

The image is not important.

I travel a lot.

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.

I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.