Pop Art is industrial painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPersonally, 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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In America the biggest 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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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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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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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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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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