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American
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Artist
Born:
August 16
, 1934
When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
Peter Saul
Home
,
School
,
Art
,
Me
,
Growing Up
,
Only
You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.
Peter Saul
Art
,
Look
,
World
,
You
,
Opinion
,
Pictures
I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamorize certain things. You can make the imagery sharper, rounder, and basically better looking.
Peter Saul
Looking
,
Strong
,
Enjoy
,
Think
,
You
,
High
I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I'd like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art.
Peter Saul
Art
,
People
,
Know
,
See
,
Things
,
I See
A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.
Peter Saul
Myself
,
Art
,
Happy
,
Mistake
,
People
There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.
Peter Saul
Me
,
Small
,
People
,
Group
,
Always
,
Make
I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.
Peter Saul
People
,
Look
,
Picture
,
Name
,
Interesting
I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.
Peter Saul
Me
,
Interesting
,
Stop
,
Find
,
Try
,
Right
I'm aware of other artists, but what I'm really most interested in is viewing individual pictures. I like dramatic pictures.
Peter Saul
Pictures
,
Like
,
Individual
,
Most
,
Aware
I like it best when two ideas collide, like when you have a crazed attitude towards women combined with a crazed attitude towards the Vietnamese. I like that. Even if it's not true, I don't care whether it's true or false. I just do it.
Peter Saul
Attitude
,
Women
,
Best
,
Ideas
,
You
,
Care
I try to vote as left as I can. I hope that my paintings will coincide and be far left, but frequently... the painting rebels and goes fascist on me.
Peter Saul
Hope
,
Me
,
Vote
,
Painting
,
I Can
,
Try
A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
Peter Saul
People
,
Never
,
Done
,
Why
,
Some
,
Things
I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.
Peter Saul
Success
,
Car
,
Art
,
Money
,
Looking
,
Baby
Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
Peter Saul
Art
,
Me
,
Thought
,
Stupid
,
World
,
Famous
I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.
Peter Saul
Good
,
Children
,
Look
,
Long
,
Better
,
Way
While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
Peter Saul
Painting
,
College
,
Ideas
,
Trees
,
Palm
The Pop art I wound up doing came to me purely from 'Mad' comics. I loved the idea of doing fun stuff. I met an art dealer who wanted to show the work - that was in January 1962 - and that was the beginning for me.
Peter Saul
Work
,
Loved
,
Art
,
Me
,
Fun
,
Beginning
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