I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEINPicasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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