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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

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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Certain Dot Draw Drawing Paint Paper Sure Thing Want
You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Compose Ideas Just Music Own Reality Thinking World
Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Art Country Industrial Painting Pop Thinking
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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Come Draw Lot Mind Painting Thing Trying Usually Worl Yeah
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
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
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
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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Change Come Gangbuster Interest Interesting Passage Sometimes Subtitle
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
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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All Change Direction Expression Happen Impact Thought Time Want
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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Crystalized Depiction Drawing Itself Kind Object Symbol
And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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Anything Better Carry Interested Matter Really Society Subject Teach Want Way
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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Anything Expressionist Next Normal Oddities Painting Sometimes Strange Think Thinking Year
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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Change Draw Drawing Making Out Think Usually Want Work
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’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

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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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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