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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAs long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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