In America the biggest is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYou know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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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 not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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