"I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings"

Tom Wesselmann's quote talks to his method to painting as a beginner artist. He was content to take motivation from other people's work, as he had nothing to claim concerning the subject. He was not thinking about the web content of the painting, but instead in developing something visually interesting. This suggests that he was much more thinking about the aesthetics of the paint than in the meaning behind it. He was a creep in the feeling that he was not interested in the much deeper meaning of the painting, however rather with the surface level aesthetic allure. This quote speaks to the suggestion that art can be valued on a purely aesthetic degree, without needing to explore the much deeper significance behind it.