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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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 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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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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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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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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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