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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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