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.
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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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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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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 don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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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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