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As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.

Roy Lichtenstein

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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Art Country Deal Force Met People Person Talent Work World
A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Artist Cartoon Country Done Include Interest Mickey Mouse Number People Peron
I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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Art Center Country Interest University Way
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Antisensitivity Art Civilization Impregnate Interest Modern Paint Thinking
My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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.
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Country Living Mcdonalds People Peron School Thing World
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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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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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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