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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
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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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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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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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Art Organized Perception
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Art Creative Education Form Plain Transform
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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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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