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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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 kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own 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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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But 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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