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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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 of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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