What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThere 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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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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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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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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