There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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