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brutality and maybe hostility that is useful to me in an aesthetic way.

Ques: In a sense you're saying negative things, but I think there's something positive you [[strikethrough]] can [[/strikethrough]] have to say, about...You talk about anti-sensibility, but you do bring your own very special sensibility to the work, and [[handwritten]] which incidentally, as we know [[back to type]] that has been criticized for example for looking like the things it's supposed to copy. I think you should say something about...[[handwritten]] How do you feel about that? [[back to type]]
Roy: Yeh, well...I know that my work has been accused of looking like the [[circled]]...[[uncircled]] [[handwritten]] them [[back to text]] things that I copy, and it certainly does look like the things I copy, and I think a lot of this is that people assume that similar things are identical and that the...Art has something, as an idea is very illusive and one can never say where the art is in one's work and what art is and...But it is that quality, whatever art is, that transforms the work of art [[handwritten]] into [[back to text]] to be something different from the subject matter. That's why a marble statue isn't the same thing as the person. There're certainly similarities. The work that I usually work from is already two dimensional and my own work is largely two-dimensional so that one tends to think this is copying because We all have learned that it's not good to copy [[handwritten]]other people's [[back to type]] drawings of other people's, and I appear to be copying drawings of other people, and in many cases [[handwritten]] am [[back to type]] are. This is one of these don't do things which artists continually break down and of course Comic strips were considered non-art things and that is another taboo that's been broken up. Commercial art in general [[strikethrough]] I   suppose was considered inferior. We learned that in art school and...so that anything that looks like commercial art of course would be inferior. But I think that...it's