You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial 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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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