Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
ROY LICHTENSTEINBut usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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