I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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.
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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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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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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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