Organized perception is what art is all about.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPeople 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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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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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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 kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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