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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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Artist Between Cartoon Country Definitely May People Person Relationship Understood
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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Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Consistency Hard Painting Trying Very
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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Between Cliched Fact Rigid Seem Tension Think Way
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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Always Away Cartoon Done Influence Painting Picasso Start Such Thing
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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Interest People See Thing Thinking Vision Work
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
As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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Another Artist Depend Itself Long Mark Relate Unity Vision
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
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Hard Idea People Pretty Reality Think
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
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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Change Come Gangbuster Interest Interesting Passage Sometimes Subtitle
In America the biggest is the best.
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Best Biggest Country Standard
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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Become Country Industrial Mena Same Soon Think Universal Way Work
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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Basket Interest Make Matter Picnic Prefer Something Strip Subject Suppose Terribly
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

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