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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Roy Lichtenstein

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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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.
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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