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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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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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