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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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Art Character Commercial Emotion Feeling Human Mistake Sanitize Sanitizing Symbolic Work
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Art Aspect Commercial Consider Interest Normally Thinking Way Worst
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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Country Extremely Feeding Look Painting Person Romantic Since Something Unrealistic World
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
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Art Itself Looks Paint Pop Something World
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 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
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Contrast Organisation Painting Position Stem
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Kind Know Most Painter People Ridiculous Thinking
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
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
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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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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