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.
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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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 think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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