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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.

It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

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

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

I really wanted to have a different approach of beauty because when I came to America, they were still heavily, heavily plastic. The ads were so heavily retouched.

It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.