Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWe’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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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 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 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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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