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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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