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I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.
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I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
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I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
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And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
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Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
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But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.
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Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.
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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
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Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
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I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
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I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.
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Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
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I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.
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