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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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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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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.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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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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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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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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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the 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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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 think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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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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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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