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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

Roy Lichtenstein

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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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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.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk 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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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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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