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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

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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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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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 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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