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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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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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But 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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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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