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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

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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Cliche Differences Form Make Monument Organize Trying
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Being Five Forget Kind Look Now Oddity People Some Thirty Years
In America the biggest is the best.
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Best Biggest Country Standard
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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Anti Commercial Contemplative Direction Ironic Irony Product Think Thinking
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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Around Color Draw Drawing Gesture Guess Hard Mind Panting Size
I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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Architect Architecture Art Form Kind Result Think Thinking
I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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Influence Look Probably Thinking
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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Change Come Gangbuster Interest Interesting Passage Sometimes Subtitle
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
My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Always Away Cartoon Done Influence Painting Picasso Start Such Thing
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Actual Admire Apparently Paradied Thing
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
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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Basket Gas Interest Interesting Picnic Pump Sign Strip Suppose Tree

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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