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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Art Creative Education Form Plain Transform
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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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Being Five Forget Kind Look Now Oddity People Some Thirty Years
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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Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something
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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Change Draw Drawing Making Out Think Usually Want Work
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Anxiety Art Interest Interesting More Much
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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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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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Country Extremely Feeding Look Painting Person Romantic Since Something Unrealistic World
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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Art Itself Looks Paint Pop Something World
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Antisensitivity Art Civilization Impregnate Interest Modern Paint Thinking
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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