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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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 think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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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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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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