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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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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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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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