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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Roy Lichtenstein

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
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
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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Anything Character Contrast Important Line People Position
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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Believe Belive Feel Impersonal Impression Look Own Personally Programme Thinking Wanted Work
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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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Around Color Draw Drawing Gesture Guess Hard Mind Panting Size
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
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Art Carries Message Our Really Social Sure Trying World
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
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
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
I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Always Art Difference Drawing Mark One Want
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
My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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Anti Commercial Contemplative Direction Ironic Irony Product Think Thinking
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Best Colour Each Place Use Worst
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
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Art Cartoon Even Some Way

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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

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