I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEINUsually 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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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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