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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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Anything Character Contrast Important Line People Position
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Best Colour Each Place Use Worst
I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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Architect Architecture Art Form Kind Result Think Thinking
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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Artist Big Break Know Long Mind Thinking Tradition
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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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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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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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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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Abstract Another Art Even Everybody Know Most People Purpose Understand
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Kind Know Most Painter People Ridiculous Thinking
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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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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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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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Art Country Industrial Painting Pop Thinking
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something

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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