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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWhat interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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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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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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