Tom Wesselmann

“I think of my art as a search for a way to do representational painting.”

“I'm not an Abstract Expressionist, and I'm not a Pop artist.”

“The subject matter is just a vehicle.”

“I always liked the object quality of a painting.”

“The prime mission of my art, in the beginning and continuing, is to make figurative art as exciting as abstract art.”

“My work is not any more sexy than a Playboy centrefold.”

“I'm interested in making something that is about the real world, but is not the real world.”

“I was just trying to do something that would be on the same level as de Kooning.”