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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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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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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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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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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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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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