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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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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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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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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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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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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t 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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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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