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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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.
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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 think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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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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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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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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