I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI 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.
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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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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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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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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.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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