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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI 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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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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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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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 my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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