People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art is industrial painting.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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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 interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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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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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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