Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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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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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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