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 LICHTENSTEINIm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed 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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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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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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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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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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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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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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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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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