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 LICHTENSTEINYeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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