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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThe things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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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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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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