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.
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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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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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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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And 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.
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