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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Roy Lichtenstein

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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Architect Architecture Art Form Kind Result Think Thinking
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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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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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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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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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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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