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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.

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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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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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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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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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