Gene Swenson: Is Pop love?
Robert Indiana: Pop IS love in that it acepts all . . . all the meaner aspects of life, which, for various esthetic and moral considerations, other schools of painting have rejected or ignored. Everyting is possible in Pop. Pop is still pro-art, but surely not art for art's sake. Nor is it any Neo-Dada anti-art manifestaion: its participants are not intellectual, social and artistic malcontents with furrowed brows and fur-lined skulls.
Gene R. Swenson, "What Is Pop Art? Answers from Eight Painters, Part I: Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol," Artnews 62 (November 1963), p. 63.