I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEINOrganized perception is what art is all about.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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