I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art is industrial painting.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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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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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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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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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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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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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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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.
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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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