Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYou have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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