Pop Art is industrial painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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 think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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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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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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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.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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