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Roy Lichtenstein

"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'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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Amber Hurdle

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

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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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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."

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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

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"Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists."

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"Queen of arts and daughter of heaven."

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"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."

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"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

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"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 cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence."
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"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."
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"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."
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"In America the biggest is the best."
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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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"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."
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"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"
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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
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