You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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 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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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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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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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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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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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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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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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