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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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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