I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
ROY LICHTENSTEINColor is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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 know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk 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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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