I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThere must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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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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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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