Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYou have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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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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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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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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