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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
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
As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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Another Artist Depend Itself Long Mark Relate Unity Vision
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
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
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Art Carries Message Our Really Social Sure Trying World
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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Actual Convention Course Look People Perspective Point Think Thinking Two
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
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
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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Change Draw Drawing Making Out Think Usually Want Work
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
Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Art Organized Perception
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Art Cartoon Even Some Way
All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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All Change Direction Expression Happen Impact Thought Time Want
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
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

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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