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Indian - Artist
September 13, 1928
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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
It would be my intention that everybody should have love, and there are a lot of people in the world.
The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.
Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
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