"The last person we expected to encounter in Moscow [Nov., 1963] was an eighteen-year-old who knew more about the New York artistic scene of the moment than either of us, although we had been intensively briefed on the latest developments in the New York art world in preparation for the trip to the Soviet Union..." "...We found the pop artist extraordinarily individual. His comprehension of art was remarkable for one so young. He had a superb photographic memory which had obviously been of great assistance to him. His work was the first example we saw in the U.S.S.R. of real comprehension of pop art..." – "Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union" by Paul Sjeklocha and Igor Mead. Berkley 1967