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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

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
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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Area Canvas Color Diagonal Evently Repeated Suggest Tight Uninflect Use World
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Consistency Hard Painting Trying Very
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Antisensitivity Art Civilization Impregnate Interest Modern Paint Thinking
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 Gas Interest Interesting Picnic Pump Sign Strip Suppose Tree
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
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
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
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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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Around Color Draw Drawing Gesture Guess Hard Mind Panting Size
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
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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Almost Certain Consistency Depend Field Generalization Hold Make Modulation Nothing Say Statement Try
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
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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Crystalized Depiction Drawing Itself Kind Object Symbol
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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Cliche Differences Form Make Monument Organize Trying
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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Anything Better Carry Interested Matter Really Society Subject Teach Want Way
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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Certain Dot Draw Drawing Paint Paper Sure Thing Want

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