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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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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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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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