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.
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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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