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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

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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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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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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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Around Color Draw Drawing Gesture Guess Hard Mind Panting Size
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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Art Country Deal Force Met People Person Talent Work World
There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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