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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINColor 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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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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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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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