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Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until...

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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...

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

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

I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'

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

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.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

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

I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a...

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

Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

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

I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.

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

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.'

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