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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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.

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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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Almost Certain Consistency Generalization Hold Make Modulation Nothing Say Statement
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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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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Abstract Another Even Everybody Know Most
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

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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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Contrast Organisation Position Stem
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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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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Big Know Long Tradition
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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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 Gas Picnic Pump Sign
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

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Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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Draw Lot Thing Trying Usually Worl Yeah
My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.

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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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See Thing
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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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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Actual Convention Point Think Two
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.

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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Best Each Use
Pop Art is industrial painting.

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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Industrial Pop
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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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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Culture Keep Refining Something
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.

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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Antisensitivity Impregnate Modern
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Hard Idea Think
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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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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Anything Contrast Line Position
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 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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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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