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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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