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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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