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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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 a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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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 interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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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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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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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 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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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