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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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Artist Big Break Know Long Mind Thinking Tradition
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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Always Away Cartoon Done Influence Painting Picasso Start Such Thing
You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Compose Ideas Just Music Own Reality Thinking World
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Contrast Organisation Painting Position Stem
I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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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Basket Interest Make Matter Picnic Prefer Something Strip Subject Suppose Terribly
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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Anything Better Carry Interested Matter Really Society Subject Teach Want Way
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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Anti Commercial Contemplative Direction Ironic Irony Product Think Thinking
I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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Between Cliched Fact Rigid Seem Tension Think Way
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
In America the biggest is the best.
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Best Biggest Country Standard
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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Artist Between Cartoon Country Definitely May People Person Relationship Understood
I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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Influence Look Probably Thinking
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Consistency Hard Painting Trying Very
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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Art Character Commercial Emotion Feeling Human Mistake Sanitize Sanitizing Symbolic Work
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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Another Artist Depend Itself Long Mark Relate Unity Vision
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Actual Admire Apparently Paradied Thing

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