What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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