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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.

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There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!

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If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.

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I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'

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The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

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I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

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I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

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When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

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I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: November 29th, 1933

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