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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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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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 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 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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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