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 LICHTENSTEINOrganized perception is what art is all about.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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