Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art is industrial painting.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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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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But 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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There 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.
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As 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.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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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 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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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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