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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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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 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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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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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