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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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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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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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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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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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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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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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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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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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