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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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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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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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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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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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