"I asked Ivan Karp [the art dealer] for ideas and at a certain point he
said, . . . 'Why don't you paint some cows, they're so wonderfully
pastoral and such a durable image in the history of art' (Ivan talked
like this). I don't know how
'pastoral' he expected me to make them, but when he saw the huge
cow heads—bright pink on a bright yellow background—that I was going to
have made into rolls of wallpaper he was shocked. But after a moment he
exploded with 'They're
super-pastoral! They're ridiculous! They're blazingly bright and
vulgar.' I mean he loved those cows and for my next show we papered all
the walls with them."
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