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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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