Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
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.
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!
The effect of the advertising way of thinking on our brains, and how we live on our planet, is very disturbing. It's not a very good thing, and it's not the kind of thing to just make into kind of a "ha-ha. "
You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.
Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.
Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.