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

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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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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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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 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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