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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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