We’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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAs 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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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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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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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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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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