My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
ROY LICHTENSTEINThere is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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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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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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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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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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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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