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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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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
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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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
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
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
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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Art Character Commercial Emotion Feeling Human Mistake Sanitize Sanitizing Symbolic Work
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
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Actual Admire Apparently Paradied Thing
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Art Aspect Commercial Consider Interest Normally Thinking Way Worst
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
Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Art Creative Education Form Plain Transform
As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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Another Artist Depend Itself Long Mark Relate Unity Vision
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
In America the biggest is the best.
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Best Biggest Country Standard
I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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