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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Roy Lichtenstein

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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Around Beginning Color Draw Four Guess Kind Mind Painting Refine
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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Almost Certain Consistency Depend Field Generalization Hold Make Modulation Nothing Say Statement Try
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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Art Country Deal Force Met People Person Talent Work World
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
Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Art Organized Perception
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Art Itself Looks Paint Pop Something World
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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Artist Big Break Know Long Mind Thinking Tradition
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
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 Gas Interest Interesting Picnic Pump Sign Strip Suppose Tree
I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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Art Center Country Interest University Way
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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Influence Look Probably Thinking
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Hard Idea People Pretty Reality Think
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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Actual Convention Course Look People Perspective Point Think Thinking Two
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
In America the biggest is the best.
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Best Biggest Country Standard
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Contrast Organisation Painting Position Stem

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