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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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Country Living Mcdonalds People Peron School Thing World
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Kind Know Most Painter People Ridiculous Thinking
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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Art Center Country Interest University Way
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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Basket Interest Make Matter Picnic Prefer Something Strip Subject Suppose Terribly
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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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Around Color Draw Drawing Gesture Guess Hard Mind Panting Size
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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Artist Cartoon Country Done Include Interest Mickey Mouse Number People Peron
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Best Colour Each Place Use Worst
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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Artist Big Break Know Long Mind Thinking Tradition
Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Art Organized Perception
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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Crystalized Depiction Drawing Itself Kind Object Symbol
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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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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Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something
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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
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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Cliche Differences Form Make Monument Organize Trying
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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