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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

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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Abstract Another Art Even Everybody Know Most People Purpose Understand
Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Art Organized Perception
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Best Colour Each Place Use Worst
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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Come Draw Lot Mind Painting Thing Trying Usually Worl Yeah
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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Country Living Mcdonalds People Peron School Thing World
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Always Art Difference Drawing Mark One Want
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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Artist Big Break Know Long Mind Thinking Tradition
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Hard Idea People Pretty Reality Think
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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Anything Character Contrast Important Line People Position
I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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Become Country Industrial Mena Same Soon Think Universal Way Work
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Art Country Deal Force Met People Person Talent Work World
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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Around Beginning Color Draw Four Guess Kind Mind Painting Refine
In America the biggest is the best.
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Best Biggest Country Standard
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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Area Canvas Color Diagonal Evently Repeated Suggest Tight Uninflect Use World

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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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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