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 LICHTENSTEINPop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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