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If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

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 1964.

I love Andy Warhol!

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.