Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
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.
My goal is that LOVE should cover the world.
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.
Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life. . . When you stop moving, you're done.
Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole. " "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, "African American," because we're Black people.