I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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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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