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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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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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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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