But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
ROY LICHTENSTEINA number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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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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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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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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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But 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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