Occupation: Artist Birth: October 27, 1923 Death: September 29, 1997
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons..
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..
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it..
Organized perception is what art is all about..
Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best..
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms..
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 cha….
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….
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me..
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistak….
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….
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about..
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire..
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 car….
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 re….
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definit….
Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world..
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try….
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..
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself..
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..