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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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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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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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 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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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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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.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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