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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

~Roy Lichtenstein

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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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I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm 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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I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

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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 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'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

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I think we're much smarter than we were. 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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: October 27th, 1923

Died: September 29th, 1997

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