I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThere 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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Yeah, 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.
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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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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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