Most Of My Adult Life I Had

I Couldn't Find Any Good Pictures In Magazines Of Ordinary Modern Street Corners In America, So I Persuaded This Guy I Knew In Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - To Spend A Day With Me Driving Around Just To Take Snapshots.

I Use Photos A Lot For Drawing People And Personalities, But They're Almost Never Photos That I've Taken.

The French Hold Onto Their Traditions. I Was Always So Alienated In America. My Work Was This Constant Reaction To That.

As A Kid Growing Up In The 1950s I Became Acutely Aware Of The Changes Taking Place In American Culture And I Must Say I Didn't Much Like It. I Witnessed The Debasement Of Architecture, And I Could See A Decline In The Quality Of Things Like Comic Books And Toys, Things Made For Kids. Old Things Seemed To Have More Life, More Substance, More Humanity In Them.

Yeah, I Was A Child Of American Popular Culture.