Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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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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