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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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Abstract Another Art Even Everybody Know Most People Purpose Understand
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
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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Art Character Commercial Emotion Feeling Human Mistake Sanitize Sanitizing Symbolic Work
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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Influence Look Probably Thinking
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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Crystalized Depiction Drawing Itself Kind Object Symbol
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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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Artist Between Cartoon Country Definitely May People Person Relationship Understood
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Art Being Despicable Industrialization Interesting Like Thing Thinking
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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Area Canvas Color Diagonal Evently Repeated Suggest Tight Uninflect Use World
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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Anything Better Carry Interested Matter Really Society Subject Teach Want Way
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

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