Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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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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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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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