Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEINColor is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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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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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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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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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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