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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Art Aspect Commercial Consider Interest Normally Thinking Way Worst
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Art Carries Message Our Really Social Sure Trying World
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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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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Country Living Mcdonalds People Peron School Thing World
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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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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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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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