Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
ROY LICHTENSTEINEverybody 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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