I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEINBut 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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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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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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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