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

Roy Lichtenstein

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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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