I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
ROY LICHTENSTEINOutside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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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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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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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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