All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art is industrial painting.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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