If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.
My goal is that LOVE should cover the world.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades. . . It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.
I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code
Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.
Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.