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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAnd 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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People 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.
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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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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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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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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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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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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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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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