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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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’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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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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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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