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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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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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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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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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