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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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