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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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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.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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