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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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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 don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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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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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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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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