There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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