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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPeople 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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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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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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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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Personally, 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.
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