I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWhen 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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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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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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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