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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

I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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Crystalized Depiction Drawing Itself Kind Object Symbol
There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something
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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Between Cliched Fact Rigid Seem Tension Think Way
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
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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Art Center Country Interest University Way
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
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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Believe Belive Feel Impersonal Impression Look Own Personally Programme Thinking Wanted Work
A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Artist Cartoon Country Done Include Interest Mickey Mouse Number People Peron
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
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
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
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
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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Almost Certain Consistency Depend Field Generalization Hold Make Modulation Nothing Say Statement Try
You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Compose Ideas Just Music Own Reality Thinking World

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