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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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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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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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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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