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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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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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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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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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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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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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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