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In America the biggest is the best.
I've never done an anguished painting.
I think you go nuts when you get older.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.
Organized perception is what art is all about.
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.
Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.
Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.
Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.
I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.
I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.
I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.
I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it.
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
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.
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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.
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.
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.
Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.
I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.
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.
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.
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.