Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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 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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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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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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