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• I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

  Christian Marclay

  Art, Culture, Abstract

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• I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Country, Couple, Artist

  "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". collider.com. September 14, 2014.

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• I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Feelings, Connections

  "60 SECONDS: Jeff Koons". Interview with Graeme Green, metro.co.uk. July 18, 2017.

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• I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave.

  Adam Lambert

  Artist, Style, Littles

  "BWW Exit Interview: 'IDOL' Adam Lambert". BWW Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. May 23, 2009.

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• I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

  Robert Indiana

  Thinking, Long, Poetry

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• I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.

  Matt Groening

  Art, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Numbers, Arbitrary

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• Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Generations, Safari

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• Pop art is a way of liking things.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Way, Pops

  Jane Dillenberger, Andy Warhol (1998). “The Religious Art of Andy Warhol”, Burns & Oates

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• What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Civilization

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• I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was '65, I don't know. Somebody showed me a copy of the "East Village Other", which was an underground newspaper. And... it had comics in it! And they weren't superhero comics.

  Trina Robbins

  Art, Drawing, Superhero

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Civilization, Effort

  "Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

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• I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Pieces, Proud

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think people always have - not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that a female pop artist can write all her songs. Even I do it sometimes, you see a really good female pop artist and you're like, 'I wonder if she writes her songs.' That's never really my first initial reaction to a male popstar.

  Ellie Rowsell

  Song, Struggle, Writing

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

  Horace Panter

  Art, Stars, Thinking

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

  Colin MacInnes

  Art, England, Pops

  1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

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• I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.

  Brian McKnight

  Country, Kids, Artist

  "5 questions for Brian McKnight". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.houstonchronicle.com. August 16, 2016.

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• Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Calling, Pops

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti was a citizen of the world. He was very eclectic. He sang with Sting and with a lot of other pop artists, and this open-mindedness, for me, is very important.

  Amaury Vassili

  Artist, Thinking, Important

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Reality, Self

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

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• I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

  Andy Warhol

  Forever, Lasts, Wonder

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Stars, Mean

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• I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Long, Looks

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