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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Roy Lichtenstein

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Actual Admire Apparently Paradied Thing
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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Actual Convention Course Look People Perspective Point Think Thinking Two
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
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Hard Idea People Pretty Reality Think
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
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
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 don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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 Interest Make Matter Picnic Prefer Something Strip Subject Suppose Terribly
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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Around Beginning Color Draw Four Guess Kind Mind Painting Refine
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
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
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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Anything Expressionist Next Normal Oddities Painting Sometimes Strange Think Thinking Year
You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Compose Ideas Just Music Own Reality Thinking World
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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Artist Between Cartoon Country Definitely May People Person Relationship Understood
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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Country Extremely Feeding Look Painting Person Romantic Since Something Unrealistic World
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

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