Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEINBut 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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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 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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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