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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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