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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.

Roy Lichtenstein

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
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art Look Out Outside Pop World
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
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
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
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Kind Know Most Painter People Ridiculous 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
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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Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something
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
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Country Extremely Feeding Look Painting Person Romantic Since Something Unrealistic World
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Art Being Despicable Industrialization Interesting Like Thing Thinking
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 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 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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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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