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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.

Roy Lichtenstein

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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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