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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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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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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 work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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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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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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