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When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

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Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.

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I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.

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I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

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I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

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I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.

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Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

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I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

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Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: November 29th, 1933

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