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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

Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Best Colour Each Place Use Worst
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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All Change Direction Expression Happen Impact Thought Time Want
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
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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Another Artist Depend Itself Long Mark Relate Unity Vision
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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Believe Belive Feel Impersonal Impression Look Own Personally Programme Thinking Wanted Work
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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Around Beginning Color Draw Four Guess Kind Mind Painting Refine
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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Certain Dot Draw Drawing Paint Paper Sure Thing Want
You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Compose Ideas Just Music Own Reality Thinking World
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Anxiety Art Interest Interesting More Much
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
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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Always Away Cartoon Done Influence Painting Picasso Start Such Thing
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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Between Cliched Fact Rigid Seem Tension Think Way
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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Basket Gas Interest Interesting Picnic Pump Sign Strip Suppose Tree
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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Change Come Gangbuster Interest Interesting Passage Sometimes Subtitle
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Actual Admire Apparently Paradied Thing

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