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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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