I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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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 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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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But usually 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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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