Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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As 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.
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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